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• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  effectiveness of your teammates. I’ve found it’s a lot easier to put in my best ... that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be ... for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  a handful of the events created with you in mind for CPW and I hope ... do how can you really get the most out of the experience? I hope you ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won ... , I can’t tell you how huge a fan I am of your work. I actually quoted ... conflicts. I asked Facebook if anyone else was attending, assembled a posse of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old ... ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  quiet, I can barely hear it... Oh, I know! It's my entire family dying of ... /that/ spice, and I have no clue where to find the cans of whatever, all ... -fast,[annotation note="I'm not a vegan, but it seems like becoming more of one can only be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  were harmed in the end. I acquired ~99% of college wisdom from fellow ... Principle of Conservation of Difficulty. As mentioned earlier, I fell in love ... paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be described in no other manner than just sad. The amount of people I see in the ... (which are actually in June. Silly Cambridge). I can't wait!

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself ... conversation. In this way, I can talk to anyone even if it may be difficult. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  material that I am likely never to use in my future. For those of you who are ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both ... takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  exists to get people in a circle? I believe in the power of human ... shone out in thin beams of thick yellow. We were so close to the lights I ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  't-live-without-it" mindset.  I feel a lack of satisfaction, of vindication, in my life choices ... protect ourselves and the cycles of human hibernation. I was in a bar on the ... never been to them that I can think of them this way: means of a better

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some ... 'm counting this as my third job since I do get paid (in the form of subsidized

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  HORRIBLE! You probably just lounged around and laughed at all of us!" While I ... me. I spent from 9 AM to 2 PM in various chat rooms, blogs, forums, and ... come to MIT. I was just as interested in seeing who got in as anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my ... beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked ... , I was not disappointed in the number of students and families that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  met. (Girl) Ah, the scene I can't forget We were thrown together in the ... tongue I made a hit with you, you must confess. (Boy) Yes, you hit me in ... at Harlem (Girl) At the Bronx I murmured yes, (Boy) We lost no time in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... clothing with the help of TechCash, but since I can't do that anymore I find

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008