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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  , though, I know how hard it can be to clean up and take care of yourself ... long way, and it's definitely made this summer a lot smoother than I ... same apartment as the Massachusetts home.  Everyone tells you it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  a hard-ass (which, to a certain extent, is true). It took me a long ... months ago. But I don’t think it’ll feel real until May, when, by some ... come out of me. Lol.” How do I distill the last 15 years into one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  "]two other people,[/annotation] and I’m really excited to see how it’ll turn ... Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind ... things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its ... as a rite of passage. It's a celebration of reaching the halfway point

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  love the American Revolution. I find it so inspiring that the colonists ... Residential Exploration, but it should really stand for Rambunctious Exhibition because it pretty much entails every dorm trying to show off its culture in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  just had was to write something along these lines and send it to the CEO ... our customer," and MEAN it this time. I could tell you a story about a ... . No, it's not possible. I don't care if they say it needs to be done. I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  own feel for how you will do at MIT.  Sure, it's nice to maybe meet up ... .  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT ... that makes us happy :)  It is helping us get through this tough week, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  cool place. Some people ask me questions along the lines of, "how long would it take for the egg to hatch?" or "how do you know there's no baby ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  before. What was my fault was the fact that it took me so long to figure ... a long time, wondering whether "open it" was the wrong answer. I went ... with my editing, probably, since a lot of it had taken place in the early

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  (visiting relatives) while I was home finishing up my internship. how the ... station"]it[/annotation] Sampled [annotation note="(5)"]five ... [/annotation] Finished out the last 1.5 weeks of my [annotation note="So Long, Big Tech

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  of awe and wonder. It's impressive how much progress Play Labs and ... 've been involved with the Game Lab and VR@MIT before, so it was exciting to ... doing a virtual dog simulator. Excited to see how these startups do. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  ) recently and we talked about writing and how to make a living at it. I think ... On an extra-long Wednesday a week ago, when spring break has come and ... , and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  land learning how dragon boat paddle techniques differ from canoeing or ... land. (Admittedly, it looked kind of silly but was important to learn ... students affiliated with it) also offers free classes in water sports like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  ’ve made it this far – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... th, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... consider you for Regular Action as well, as long as your application is

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at Harvard and come back in love with MIT? - but I couldn't help it. The reason ... musty old tome in the Harvard library. Pretty sweet deal. As it happened

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  even more appreciative of the work it does. It's inspired me to give more ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  , but ultimately, it was up to each student to decide how deeply they ... marveling at the beauty of how math translates to physics, and that made it ... thoroughly enjoyed it. I never before appreciated just how much I enjoy the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  familiar with the content being covered now. We’ll see how it goes once we ... I am thrilled about. Hour long gaps are surprisingly short, since it ... on this later. Anyway, it just so happened that the banquet coincided

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... assembled it into this monstrosity with coconut flakes and oreos and frosting

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018