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• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore ... Things All International Students Can Relate To! You won’t believe number ... everything. Eating stuff with knives? If your meat wasn’t soft enough that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  thinking that it was in February; I don’t know why, I didn’t even “get ... you don’t get in.” Things could definitely have gone differently, and maybe right now I’d be telling you about a different time that I didn’t

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the ... Rings Trilogy (I feel like I wouldn't be allowed to graduate from MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Project STEEM camp. "It was really neat. It showed us stuff we hadn't seen and won't see until college," Landers commented. Funded in 2007 by a $1 ... himself to school. At that time, he didn't crack the top 20 percent of his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  not a Brown or Yale admissions blog, I probably won't be blogging about ... memories. I don't know about you guys, but I attend a freaking ton of these ... won't be blogging (because I'll be talking). _____ Topic one: The

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... San Fran was visit In-N-Out Burger. This isn't exactly nerdy, but was ... armrests in between them.) We couldn't figure out why this was. We discussed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  you don't see your question or if you have another one, feel free to ... people wearing anything from geeky T-shirts, kilts and blue hair, to ... represent you, just make sure you don't abuse that privilege. So I believe you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on ... that the control group isn’t aware that they’re the control group, but ... “unobservable counterfactuals”: we cannot know something (unobservable) that didn’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  IFC 2025 Rush T-Shirt, and took my first step into Kresge Kickoff ... wouldn’t have the wide-eyed stupor of a first-year seeing Greek letters for ... or wouldn’t fit into a space. She reminded me that the whole point was

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  animation is smooth (if you don't stress your computer's resources), the UI ... — Made up the "T" in MIT 100 Trombones — Seen at the left side of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that ... somewhere new Can't go back Keep moving through https

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  ), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1 ... universities don't have undergraduate urban planning degrees and no other school ... graduate) because I didn't want to be in an environment of exclusively

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  expect, you may be satisfied. If it doesn’t, you may not be satisfied and regret not making another choice because you may feel you didn’t pay ... , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don’t

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... unsustainable, that i might have lost myself somewhere along the way, and if i don't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore.” No, that doesn’t mean my homeland fell into the ocean, or was destroyed ... hold treasured memories, I can’t revisit or reconnect with the people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you ... deserve it all I see you as a human first Even when you didn't understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  ://youtube.com/shorts/9t1d0UjvEI0?feature=share [caption id="attachment_99886" align ... , the experience isn't describable, and I didn't even attempt to take ... April 8. I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much time staring at the blue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... hadn't taken 18.701 that fall i wouldn't have taken 18.702 (Algebra II ... different. and that isn't a bad thing. i like where i am at. i wouldn't want

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  out of using one in the first place. I didn't worry about perfect lines ... can't unsee it. [caption id="attachment_87985" align ... archaeology class, I think. I remembered seeing them around Boston, but I didn't

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  . I don't love my classes, but I'm getting through (y'know, relatively ... 's kind of tiring. But when I look at the list above, I can't imagine ... didn't want to be putting these off until my senior year. Finally, 5

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023