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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at least Wednesday or Thursday, after my finals are done. I have been tooling quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east ... well, so if you're wondering where I went, I've simply been on the go. :-) Today, I had lunch with Daniel and Ben at Anna's Taqueria, a quick

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to remedy for graduate school applications. So I had known about the NIH

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Pre-entry warning: I took the GRE this morning, and since I completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been ... two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would ... 've been 3 technicals and 2 HASSs/writing heavy classes (I was planning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... finished today. Speaking of starred items, I between taking that photo 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application…
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  Sometimes I worry I have too many blog posts that are just paragraphs of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  I’m three weeks into my MISTI, and I think I’ve pretty much got this ... what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... " and Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017."  Note: Part 1 of this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... -present taco man spins his advertisement sign on Stout street, the same place I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  One year ago, I lost my first stickered bottle. 😔 Pretty sure it slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on campus, taking classes and doing research. How does it feel? I don’t know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult, or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of it tonight, so I'll leave you with this moral dilemma: On the way home

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  posts:   ---- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by ... outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017