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• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  interview (that’s what happens when you go to college during covid) and i was ... scenarios regardless of how absurd they are, and you enter thought cycles ... and did i ever mention i hate rollercoasters? i get out of bed and open

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam ... lights up offensively bright shades of neon blue and red, and the blaring ... , internally. I have been able to resolve many of my questions about who I am and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have ... confidence boosts, as my reviewer told me I had a lot of potential and my ... version of what I had, but essentially I split it up and ranked the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  for you, and has a zero percent chance of coming with the bitter aftertaste of your suitemate using and not washing your chopping board last ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just ... front of European landmarks. You can go back and read that whole entry, or if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  and the newness of college and the newness of ourselves and aging and ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row ... stint and i think i was capped at like 23 which is kind of sad) and doing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  - and for that I apologize. MIT can give you a lot of things, but free ... they'd want to meet. (And they do, actually.) At the end of it all ... of the world, you can't put that feeling to words - and you shouldn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  and early 5:30 PM (because we actually have the lifestyle habits of ... was during Sasha and Sneha's chess phase, which lasted all of one week ... to solve a Rubik's Cube, watching an entire episode of Star Trek, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never ... . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and ... when I started college, because I just kept going to the gym, kind of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  - what would the last ten years have been like without the web? And yet ... from commerce to politics to college admissions with his invention. No, in person he's just a nice, friendly guy with talents in physics and

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  deficiency since at MIT"] darkness of the fall[/annotation], and Warmness with ... though people have been filled with the light and optimism of the bright ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right ... at MIT is from Minnesota, and they have a different way than me of ... . MIT prides itself in being full of culture and full of diverse thoughts

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  lots of sprockets and tensioners and shifters; I opted to buy a wheel ... a piece of sheet steel on it as a test surface. Instructor and general ... week may be some of my thoughts about the college essay, although those

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an ... ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... method of scientific teaching and that of premed-prominent universities in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... ? I watched an episode of Fringe. Then I watched Lion King Parts 1 and 2 ... . I still cringed at Mufasa’s death, and by the end of the second volume

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It ... , a land of glue, x-acto knives, mounds of paper, pencil and pens ... ? Classes make me do lots of cool things besides sitting in a room and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  life of an admissions officer on the road can be hectic, and sadly we do ... crowd of lively juniors and seniors in the school theater. Friendly ... (home of UCLA) for a quick email check and boba, followed by a sit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... enjoyed her company, and am glad that I stayed up instead of going back to ... conductor (nothing) I said it was going to be a wonder of a trip, and, oh. my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East ... many others - were meaningful and relevant parts of my MIT experience, and they've sort of just passed into the mist of my memory because of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  kind of fiddling with my spring semester schedule here and there. It ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in ... of the day. I woke up around 10:20 and ate some shitty breakfast I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020