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• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  completely myself without any pretense of normality, and I was sure that would ... -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  Red Hot Chili Peppers, despite the title of this entry): Of Montreal and ... ! What did YOU do when you got into MIT? Example: I'm Sandy, one of Jess's favorite people ever, and I called Jess the minute I found out I got into MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  3="77327" /]   5:00 I get home and sit in a patch of sunlight ... bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  of the GRAs in Simmons has her tetris score posted on her door, and it ... , eh? I have seen videos of the recent records on this version and it ... offers a bunch of other training features that people are playing on. And I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... record a class and do it over. After a frightening semester of flying

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Magazine and Phonebook I found some issues of Wired magazine, they sit ... . SolidWorks! A bunch of books and guides for SolidWorks, my favorite ... bookshelf in my personal blog. It's now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  opinions do not consistently agree or disagree with any group of people and ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... on my email and read some articles and flipped through the first

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... tactfully ask him to let her focus on her busy career and academic life for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  book and the Math II prep book, from start to finish, on top of my ... school, and my mother and I spent even more hours on even more Saturdays in ... money for any kind of test prep. If someone charges you more than the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  's just a nice place to sit and think. So here's my list of Things I ... than the stuff out of microwave boxes. 6. Videos and pizza with friends ... gets a big gold star from me. 15. Money doesn't grow on trees... and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of desperation. Each ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  of a cloudy sky and a soft, enlivening smattering of frigid mist on my ... I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6 ... could drop any one of my classes with practically no consequences for my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  pore over chemistry textbooks and scientific journals for information on ... populate and self-organize in any given space. So basically, I’m trying to ... and over on a 3D modeling program, so that’s where the coding comes in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  and move on to the next section about phonology. Consonants There are ... , manner of articulation, and their voicing. A consonant is voiced if the ... : voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation, in that order

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been ... . And then on Wednesday night, she stayed up with the rooming committee ... photo ID and sign a special book. I guess it's kind of a security measure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action ... production of Dirty Hands, by the famous French philosopher and dramatic Jean

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... document the health effects of overscheduling young people. The take home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... ; Wander around. MIT has a lot of funny corners, and maybe you’ll stumble ... to you? What major do you tend towards? Any HASS (humanities, arts, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  ! Because the majority of America is not uneducated, wasteful, and overweight. I ... and grandma made were of course the best I ever had, being homemade and ... taking on more classes and experiences, and didn't regret a single moment

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP ... outdoor screening of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;" all guests

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005