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• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  two weeks ago i was walking through the infinite corridor at night ... there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats ... ? mrreeoooooooowwwwwowwowwwwww! without pause because they want to be fed at 3 am. Or maybe because they want cuddles at 3 am. Or maybe because they’ve decided they want out

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  you're bad at them. And you shouldn't feel bad about being bad at things ... whatever thing you're good at, there's gonna be someone who's ten times better than you at it. Singing? There's like twelve a cappella groups

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  . And listen to this—I looked at the skyline and made out dozens of ... saw three buildings next to each other, all of which had at least twenty ... remember walking around the streets of downtown LA at night, counting three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at ... . When forced to look at other options -- schools that weren’t as uniquely ... artistic interests as much as other schools might be able to. At CPW, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... , March 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School and Sunday, March 6th at Harvard ... friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... . Anyways, the conference I attended was being held at Yale, and there I ran ... applying through QuestBridge not too long ago. He was volunteering at the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler ... and other areas...nerds? “ Because I work at MIT and I have come to ... . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It ... 's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT.... I don't come from an academic ... dropped out of high school and earned a GED at 17. So I'm a first

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT ... Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was ... to shop around for a new one. At first I was actually pretty worried

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau ... -worthy problem in mind, we traveled over to Kпњљпњљln and asked at the ... intensive cultural experience for at least 8 hours a day, and I think I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  different stations at MIT, summer plans, how much Chinese we each know. At the ... March of 2024. The second [REDACTED] Family Dinner occurred just last week–at ... different personalities and different goals and at different stages of their

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... on and so forth. I feel like I'm doing that with my time here at MIT ... through my time at the 'tute. Two years down, and two more to go. Since then

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... glass center table. My mind looked at the leaves. Those green and purple leaves. Why was my mind finding enjoyment in looking at plants? Was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  beautiful city in the world. I’m serious. It’s incredible. Look at this ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after ... just sit and stare at a river somewhere or peoplewatch in a park. I want

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  Moments ago, at 6PM Eastern Time, we released, via email, our ... enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . All these memories come to me at once, in the same time and place, and ... 's no reason for me not to begin, all i can do is stare at it and want to ... , from my future home at 2E in next house, from my classes. all these

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at ... at an externship, travel, or really whatever the hell they want. I ... , just look at me shred. Rule #1: Look good. Rule #2: Ski Fast. Rule #3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016