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• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  admissions staff?” I stared at my friend dumbfounded. I wasn’t sure whether to ... answer: my eyes automatically scan the page for “Mexican-American”. Boom. I ... friend, I discovered the nuances and tricks that this question can pose

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  weekend antics - specifically, last weekend, when my friends Caroline '11 ... , and then I think some of my female friends are going to drag me to Mamma ... mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , Boston’s Italian district: Went for a long stroll with my friends, Gwen. On ... one of my best friends from high school, who came to MIT with me. Rumor ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... with some friends to talk about the documentary we're producing and then ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  they’re done. Friends who’ve seen my agenda have been amused by just how ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... two-weeks of the year or so. Every year, I try to make more use of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  of my male friends have grown beards since I came back from school ... know. Keri dropped her double major; my hardcore physics friend at ... 'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... ), watching movies in the lounge with my friends... maybe I'll even do some of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  -mail from Petey, and I excitedly turned to my friend in DPD saying "Oh my God ... [literally...that's a future blogpost][/caption]Of course, my friends urged me ... while showing it to my three friends asking them to read over it and make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  seemed very friendly and flat with bike lanes. My first attempt ended with ... the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  friends, and then it hit me. I could do a portrait of one of my friends, and ... the assignment description, I wanted to do the assignment on my aunt who ... video's due date. My next thought was to focus on a place, the MIT chapel

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  one of my trips back to see friends in the Boston area. It was one of ... discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to ... on the ground particularly often. Here was my view from the ground

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  Over spring break, I crashed at my recently graduated friend's place in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... my new comic books. Alone in Space by Tillie Walden, whose motifs

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  rage comic form. I don't actually read reddit, but most of my friends do ... Last weekend I posted an entry on my birthday, sharing some things I have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  )/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a-madhouse, the 'tute annually gives us this four-day weekend. My favorite kind of weekend. Today incidentally also happened to be my brother's birthday AND his school's Grandparents/Special-Friends day, so I was all, "Whateva

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  , backed up by Campus Police. My good friend Erik '09 was the head of ... in my hair, five showers later. Steer Roast, the context for this ... partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  friend!" Yoda: "My trusted ally you are." Palpatine: "Together, we can rule ... have my allegiance." C3PO: "To a splendid counterpart!" R2D2: "You can ... digits of pi in my comments tomorrow.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  , drawing, playing music. It's no secret to my friends that I consider myself ... physics and math my friends are doing and my head plays radio noise -- a ... and purpose. A want to do. Recently, I had a discussion with my friends

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  nightmarish stories about 6.006 from my friends and fellow bloggers, and nothing ... , which is a bummer considering how when I got into MIT, I texted my friend ... legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  : visiting friends What it is: Okay, this isn’t exactly a getting-my ... I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  again. And yes, it was the charger, because it couldn't charge my friend ... makes for a solid resume. Three. A few days ago, one of my friends who ... assigned to Simmons. My friend said he was assigned to Next. The email said

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020