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• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  everyone around me was better equipped going in. My friends tell me that I ... . My friends, who had their own essays to write, and yet would help edit ... 's been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  've poured hours of my life into. Friends I've made, even when I knew our time ... Cross-posted from my blog, which is where I write these days. One If ... tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  texting friends, back at my actual seat, before my internet started cutting ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  backlog of several, asked my friends for recommendations, perused ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... listener, I had my doubts. [caption id="attachment_83968" align

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  level. I’m also taking it with one of my good friends who’s a senior, so ... late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... waitlist for my gym class, so everything’s set! Scheduling classes this

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  beautiful brownstone mansion’s roof deck and invite over all my friends and ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About ... . This, however, was not an issue because all six of my friends I was ... metaphor to help you remember. The other day my friend and I had this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  junior year with my friend Kenny, a recently graduated ’23. He is a ... lucky to call them my friends. As much as we create for our guests, who ... encouragement I sought out to start MINCE with my closest friends, because, in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  my friends came to the show to cheer me on, and i was absolutely ... felt ridiculous to be publicizing the show to all my friends when i was ... dozen of my friends were at the show. as soon as we started performing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  ="89609" image6="89608" /] Walking was a crazy experience. My friends did their ... access to the magazines—in my experience, many more people were talking ... , so I was a bit out of my element; even though I'm a dancer, I felt like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  Norwalk, California. It's a beautiful house with a big backyard featuring my ... my mom, my lolo, my lola, and me. Over time, the house would grow and shrink with guests. Sometimes my uncles would stay over, sometimes my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  friends fairly easily, just as we did in Brooklyn. We liked making our peers laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... our way into already established friend groups and social dynamics. And

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  -as-utility: I can Uber my friend home, use Google Translate to have a real and ... water piercing my abdomen and the ecstasy of being alone with my friends ... foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  vividly. I remember running into one of my good friends who was also in 8 ... freshmen here at the Institute: my comrades, my peers, my friends, who ... It's official: my first semester at MIT is over. After finishing four

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  does not have an Elon Musk-sized inheritance from my parents and who has ... anonymous poll-answerers: "Food cost is low because most of my meals are free food from clubs, events, the mailing list, being swiped by friends

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  , including human-centered design workshops run by (my friend and grad school ... ’re conspiring on with our old friend Ceri R. ’16, that is not live yet, but which ... that work was done by Ceri (as mentioned in my post last year), who wrote

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  was for "smart, hard-working, ambitious people in tech." now, my ... with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like ... person, it's what are you building? building? did you mean to ask about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , and I usually order with my friends to use up the bulk items. I hope ... buy most of my produce here. Since I live in East Campus, I have enough ... can carry my groceries back to campus. If the groceries are too heavy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  . Pepsi-1996 OMG MY EYES!!!! I'm pretty sure my retinas have just ... touch with your college friends. Then they made a high school facebook ... , and of course the next logical step would be the galaxy. "1 Friend

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this ... Robotics: "Great post! my one comment is directed toward clarifying the ... groan] "Also, during the abrupt, exposition-free sex scene: 'Oh my god

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008