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• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  else piques their interest. But it’s not really goodbye. After all, we ... graduating seniors, Lauren and Julia, and we were determined to make it one of ... ’t imagine it being any other way. Of course, this solidarity is partly an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... ) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... Ecuador, and in 1978 its Old Town was declared the first UNESCO World

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... . And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time ... get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in ... . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it’s

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... it a second thought, because it's just not something I imagined doing ... shabby :P But we'll be going in January...so maybe it'll be more like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and it hasn't gotten here yet. Wednesdays I only have 1 class. 8.07 from ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I deserve it.) Of course, with independence comes responsibility. According ... . It’s an uncontrollable reflex, I swear! Anyway, this whole concept of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  registration had been confirmed! i had no idea how i had received such a ... determined that santa monica studio (the place i work) had bought all of its ... that it's coming out next year[/annotation], making this literally the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  moments to address the elephant on the table - or, as it were, the elephants ... idea - just take that as a given from a native. It is. Bikes, however ... map (you can make it larger by clicking on it): Not pictured: moving

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  everything there was to know about myself. I didn't know how easy it is to ... joked about how the opener, a band called The Weather Station, had a ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around ... elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... line. That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning ... like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  It's not very often that you see someone like Tenzin Gyatso, better ... seeing him on stage, it became clear that, even for all the reverence he ... alongside teams of A/V specialists and cameramen. But hey, it was completely

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  difficult class and I wonder how it'll end up. 21F.076 Globalization - 9 Units ... end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To ... slot worth it. 6.004 Computation Structures - 12 Units 004 is the course

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  says a lot about MIT. It says the kind of things about MIT I will be ... and their families. It says that MIT is community oriented. Truly. The ... the lone genius working alone is turned on its head. A place where

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of it, without having experienced CPW previously. How many campus visit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  science. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that my dad was an engineer and my mom was a biochemist. Perhaps it had to do with all that tinkering I used to do with Tinker Toys and K’nex. Perhaps it was DESTINY. Whatever

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff ... of bloggerdom, crowding my blogspace with its inconvenient, road ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010