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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... end of my program. I end up second in the Free Skating portion of the ... hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in ... Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  spirit of vacation, I spent the next four hours sitting in Starbucks ... another of my MIT friends in the city for the week, sat in on their women ... ; Bacon…I was in heaven ☺ . After our delicious lunch at A Slice of Brooklyn

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... Lending Art Program. I participated in SLAP this year and got a piece of art

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  . I hadn’t. If I had taken my medications. I hadn’t. In a moment of ... 18 years of my life. I feel anchored. I feel safe with myself, in my ... version of myself, and I still sometimes feel like my life is in shambles

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your ... color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast ... , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of ... . Regardless of his intention, when I read that passage I saw this in my mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... that happened during build, but in the interest of not writing a novel, I ... intended. From the perspective of someone running the house, I can say there

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab ... those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... vs. the number of male applicants to MIT this year, since I know you ... will be from the same part of the city, or be the same race, or the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... , earbuds in. When I arrived in Boston, I had the daunting task of retrieving

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  concerts.” The Boston Pops was founded in 1885 with the goal of performing ... nominations than I have years of life. It’s probably very difficult to include ... the bizarrely grandiose First Church of Christ, Scientist. I ate dinner

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... one of the East Campus events, I learned how to use an electric drill ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  groups, I have been in Seattle, at home, while the rest of my family has ... Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and ... intelligence in such a vast array of ways. I was very attached to The Smart Kid ... group of people most similar to me. If I did, I wouldn't have ended up in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  , filling in every inch of nothingness. I had become pain incarnate. Full of ... like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I ... Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010