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• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti. He’s nervous about opening the MIT decisions portal already.”  Eminem About 2 separate…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  't feel the same. Blogger cruft Laura N. recently did me the gracious and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  ’s got this sort of anxious off-kilter rock n’ roll feel. I can’t really

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  shopbot in N52. The design is from our seal, which is painted outside B3rd

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  debating ketchup’s place in mac ‘n cheese. We finally had friends. We got out

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  "] photo: Sv7n, from wikipedia commons, cc by 3[/caption] Using toilet paper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  Museum"]Building N51,[/annotation] a huge space with all sorts of tools

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  Something unexpected has happened with my classes this semester. Up until this point, my homework has been pretty predictable: read some lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  Indian River Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Florida Charles N

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT, because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  workout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41N6bKO-NVI Or, if you think that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015