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• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it ... those feelings to the side, but now that spring classes have started, it feels like the clock is ticking louder than ever and choosing classes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  goal, because, you know, classes. Without further ado, here are the ... .03: Intermediate Microeconomics This is the last [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... economics papers + discuss them"][/annotation]So far, I like the professor and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... took computer repair classes to prepare for the CompTIA A+ certfication ... $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other ... no concrete future plans hammered down, this feels different. The ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very ... ’s 2021 Blogger Wrapped post that said Indie Pop was the top Genre ... it. Everyone go read her blog to show appreciation for the good work

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... while writing these blogposts. Which is perhaps, inadvisable. Back to the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... /c^2)*sqrt(-1)*(PV/nR).” As much as the items sold there are decent, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ...   With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning ... ; [caption id="attachment_55941" align="alignnone" width="768"] ...the skirt

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the ... scientific and technological advancement, as well as close to one of the busiest and bustling cities in the world, Boston. During my time here, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love irl) from the guy who wrote THIS seven months ago. Enjoy ... trials and tribulations with dating, which includes the many times I have

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one ... ’ve got mixed emotions. You can see college peeking at you from around the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... addition, you'd know that the tour probably crossed Killian Court between 3 and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... seemed to have. This was further enforced by the fact that my community ... genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  interview. He suggested that we meet up during his short stay in the area, and ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014