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• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally finish up this blog post that I started last week, but I have just been too ... my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my schedule. Compared to first semester, I now have more classes, more homework, and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not here! This actually made me LOL

  

  I'm hosed. I don't have time to write a real entry. Suffice it to say, I found this video funny. What happens in this video will not happen in a conversation with any MIT student. Therefore . . . you should

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Learn from my Mistake Aesop's Fables forgot one.

  

  Rule #1: Write legibly. Background: I wrote on a pad of paper that I scheduled my GREs for October 27, or that's what I read. Turns out my 27 actually was a 21. That was my rockstar move for the day. See you Saturday!

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people from the waitlist; I'll let you know when I know more. Some people do remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There are genuinely so many different areas that I had never even thought ... interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  I'm gonna be honest: I've written and deleted and re-written and ... deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I ... wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I finished my last final. I’ve never been so ... ="aligncenter" width="700"] closing my 200 tabs[/caption] This time, I think I truly gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... most close-knit groups of people i’m aware of don’t actually support each ... entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MIT A shocking confession: one time, I almost transferred to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think ... are a very good start.   good morning, MIT—i didn’t sleep last ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  So I think that the goal was that this post be filled with wisdom and ... maybe some engineering problems). While I can’t say that I’ve personally seen the unicorns (sly little creatures), the two years since I graduated

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... algorithms. Whether or not I consumed this content intentionally, though, it ... study sessions, late night conversations... the list goes on. But now I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025