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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  Picture this, it is the summer time, and I am finally free from the stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... Media Studies graduate program. I really love the whole CMS / Media Lab ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour, and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  I AM SO ANGRY. I just wrote an entire entry, and right before I hit publish, my browser window mysteriously reloaded and I lost the entire thing. This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  I've never considered myself a very natural leader. I'm usually pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the past few years, I have been told that I still don't come off as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

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

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  as I can before I guaduate. So far, I have been doing okay but could ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... going to Seahawks playoff game(s) while I'm stuck yelling at a TV about 3,051 miles away. I think if you were to ask me point blank, "Where is home?" I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I ... ?                                               Before I go back to this summer, my life thus far has been a conglomoration of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... incredibly difficult. And by "incredibly difficult", I mean "incredibly ... concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... ), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here ... Blue), and I am ready to begin a full week of transportation. For some

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I'm not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a robot, never coded on my TI-89, never watched Star Wars. I did not get a 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... low-key. ...I basically just went home for six weeks. But I had a reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  : Resume consumption of knowledge. 3:30 PM: Study break! I decide that I can afford to treat myself to quality relaxation time, so I spend half an hour ... brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty ... . But this is MIT - what were you expecting? ;) I'm actually looking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one ... Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  Test Format: 2 Questions, Open Book/Note Brief Commentary: So I ... semester, it was cancelled, so I was out of luck. So this term, since I knew the graduate version would definitely be offered, I took the class on Jr

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006