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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  May 1, and my entire AP Government class cheered. And we do not at this ... books and tapes, keep order in the library, and do homework at the desk ... the National Institutes of Health doing PCR and analyzing paternities in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all ... get in trouble? Please do provide details =). Aalap Dighe: I was ... . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  I just want to quickly say that doing any of the things I suggest ... process. If I had to do it all over again, I personally would do the tips I’ve laid out below. Research schools that are a good fit. Do you want to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... suffer than[annotation note = "Clarification: laying in bed and doing ... awful is torture."]lay in bed and do nothing.[/annotation] Being sick in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but ... name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not ... do, and as a serious and dignified mathematician myself, I’ve learned

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... sometimes even finishing!) silly side projects constantly. Doing things makes ... discovered the joy (not) of trying to do pullbacks in tennis shoes. But the mi

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do ... you think someone stole it. You do not cause issues, and everyone should ... people out with PSETs, and you do it all while maintaining this certain

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping ... stars?  *shrugs* goal-setting do be hard sometimes, maybe I’ll just never ... in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  knitting is usually something you imagine your grandma doing as she sits by ... —it just seemed too time-intensive. There were always “better” things to do ... no psets at all to do, I picked up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad ... relationships. Like, who do I actually still keep in touch with? If I no longer have the shared context of MIT with somebody, do we still have anything

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... more data i've gathered since then, so i still have a lot to do. after

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer’s block and I do not have to force-write posts about things I don’t care ... to read.  I am always evaluating myself on how I am doing. I am usually

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  complex, worse, more joyful, harder. But at its core, I do think that it is ... , compassion, curiosity and a desire to grow -- but no idea what to do with them ... 've changed in all the ways people usually do. I'm more tired, more jaded, more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  -blank: “Do you think you’re getting all of this because you’re a girl?” That ... show favoritism to girls, they were doing a terrible job at it. Aside ... argument that I didn’t do anything wrong so there was nothing I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  panic. How do I know what's right? How do I choose correctly? There's so ... MIT to lead me down one of these proper paths. Did I do it right? Did I ... here, I realized that I was wrong. That there are ways in which I can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... the summer as something to do when I was alone in my little New York ... close attention to what I'm doing, but rather than controlling each piece

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash ... song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then ... couldn't do it. I think we ended up doing some boring song, proved by the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... on a skateboard, doing an ollie out of a giant fire behind him I ... there was in the responsive people gave, even if they didn't intend to do

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of ... do work and inspire each other and stay in touch. but now it's people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  one with one thing on our to-do list, which was to get our fortunes read ... from New Orleans to Houston, and there's really nothing good to do in ... sitting at home with nothing to do for a couple of days was definitely a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022