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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... last two weeks I was in Seattle, the whole city was covered by a pungent ... until halfway through August, I could picture myself living in the city

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... pieces of scrap paper. Finally, he looked up and said, "Well, we can pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  . MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... favorite classes I’ve taken so far, though, and much of that has to do ... for many years to come. I was part of the transportation group. Each day

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... behalf of MIT. I’ve driven through deserts, onto ferries, in downpours

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... , plus maybe one of the controllers. I have no idea what this analogy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... of power, networks and personal freedom in the city. Combines lectures ... favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange, because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can ... something you can’t imagine you ever lived without. I’m kind of writing this ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... taking in the scenery. I actually found this trail through one of our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all ... separation from the CEO of Amazon. I have jumped in a lake wearing jeans and, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  in New York, oh that concrete jungle where dreams are made of. When I ... -- a 10 day program for high schoolers in the city of Shenzhen. They went ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  of history, I get interesting answers. “Some of it we’re taught in ... you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... I wanted to highlight some of the amazing projects I’ve seen in this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can ... You Wait Eggs, especially fried in (lots of) butter. Unfortunately, I ... fall, I would recommend Head of the Charles if you are in or around

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences ... leaving work :0[/caption] the feeling of buying a discounted membership to a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this ... before, but for some of you, this was your first time. I also know that many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in ... were some bumps in the road, the language barrier being one of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... listened to more, i guess. Gloria and Teresa carried in number of songs ... map that I (lazily) made of our sound cities: Very Official Map of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023