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• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses"]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  craving the napa cabbage and meatball soup that my dad used to make. along ... overseas, and with covid restrictions it's hard to see them. my mom's coming back over the summer, but i'll have to find time to go back to china if i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

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

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus, or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit ... colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more ... to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to ... 'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... period comes around, I don't really write anything at all, leaving it to ... . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to do essentially whatever I wanted, which is sometimes hard to find at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact ... home from MIT due to COVID-19. I found myself calling friends I previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my ... cross-registered at MIT to take [annotation note="previously known as just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... issues that have prompted me to think about my culture and where I fit into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  I usually don't make *official* posts, so I'll try to keep this one ... 's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give their child some interesting material to learn about, I'd definitely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... things that make you feel alive. every week i think to myself, well, this ... more thing that was keeping me afloat (like cooking dinner, or going to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and entertaining, but right now we would like to emphasis something you should take ... Mccormick events have volunteers working to facilitate the fun -- interact

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to ... that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit, then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well: College Admissions and the Public Interest continues to help admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018