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• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee ... two days later, I had two packages of freshly made tortillas from the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  been laid off (along with 15% of the country) I volunteered to provide ... time in Cambridge.   In 2024/2025 I was in the middle of the ... That's right - the last time I was on campus for CPW was three years

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... good idea. You know, one of these things: What I forgot was that the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I ... long. Where did the actors go? So I go on eating through the bottom of my

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... minutes seeing a window to the outside world, one of the scientists wished

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... , took all of the pictures of all of the things, and own so many variations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... . Lulu was one of my TAs - I almost swooned when I made the connection that ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... ’m doing it right. I mean, the tangible steps part of this theory is great ... am unhappy and what else I can do to be happy (usually, one of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... us. One of the bigger projects was to create a person-place piece. (I made mine about Sandy Tenorio, from the Office of Engineering Outreach

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Contest Continues Contest wrapup.

  

  So in response to the death of Pluto as a planet, I am undertaking a campaign to revise the mnemonic and change history books with YOUR HELP Here are the finalists. Cast your vote for your favorite! A. My Very

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all ... of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was ... darkening, and the whole outside park was covered with this thin layer of snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... suffer from cancer the way she did. That day, I began a binder full of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... , "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... from him over the last 17 years. For those of you trying to figure out ... that the simple version is out of the way, it’s time to mention what he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... , there's other, broader organizations like the Office of Minority Education ... . And Junot Díaz stressed the importance of making one's family also feel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  instructions sitting in front of rows and rows of chairs. We (the interns) were ... pictures. I imagine most of my pictures for the rest of the summer will be of ... yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... going to be on Sunday nights, and one of the TAs wrote this apologetic e ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... mountains was a fantastic reminder of what life can be like outside the MIT ... packed full of sleeping bags, tents, and food. We were headed about 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019