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• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  culture felt underwhelming and couldn’t improve my opinion of the place. at ... ’t ignore the underdevelopment of plot and characters that felt jarring to me ... best fits and beaming at the camera. there’s always a lot of energy in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . '19, left, and I were Day Ones — she was one of the first people I met ... finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... myself, challenging myself, and making the most out of my time here

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Pennsylvania (air raid?), Shana and I took the first train out of Ursinus and ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... part of the trip: we were walking down some random street and I noticed a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your ... the afternoon and work through a sizeable chunk of the pset. In other ... preparation for all of the meets crammed into January and February. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking ... to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  first cohort, and many of their startups are tackling some interesting ... of people trying on VR for the first time. It's always a magical moment ... Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... amount of time making pasta,[/annotation]and ended up dropping the turkey

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  ). Some of you prefrosh might know me if you went on a campus tour and ... the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a ... in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first ... This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the ... first place.) The Quantenkoffer handles most of this tricky alignment ... all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  high school. Never had to study, always aced everything. And some of the GIRs just flat out crushed him. Chemistry was the worst, and one of his ... the fact that our students are so aware of their own limits and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... playing Gamecube and/or discussing the political leanings of Jesus at 4 AM ... and I decided, much to the chagrin of staunch Catholic Seve '05, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  bueno Muses, first rate Resonance, and of course gotta love the ladie ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns ... ’ place. But I love the feel of it. And now, a small sampling of my

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  , but without the FPOPs and orientation. I felt angsty because I felt like we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make ... the heart and soul of MIT, the crème filling in our Oreo of academic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of ... people and the world around me, exploring new parts of myself. It ... carefully sorting through the mess of thoughts and experiences I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  today. I might not. Three days ago I sat and waited on the patio of a ... . Between the two of us, Rob and me, we know a fair number of Santa Feans. It ... the smell of skunk on the road. I sat down nearby and met a thin old man

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , and things of the sort, I didn’t end up with a lot of time to pset ... classes would affect me in the long term, and spent a lot of time talking to ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First ... I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... the members of graduate admissions committees are professors and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006