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• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year's apps are open) was "when was the first time you really felt like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since ... taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New ... . . . well . . . it seemed annoying, and I wasn’t really sure how much the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the ... closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up, and the pain was still there. I felt hot. I held my hand against my neck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of this post: Birth to ??? 5th Grade?: Whatever's on the radio/whatever my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... note="Congrats! You made it!"]meet the early action deadline[/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  appear as the same verbal upchuck. hello! my name is cami, i'm 17 years ... . the wacky architecture, the quirky personalities, the mens et manus ... myself to hate mit. "the flight's are too far from cali." "cambridge is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  ="alignnone" width="652"] A free organ!![/caption] Step 2: Alert the Others Make sure people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked ... graduating this year I am still on the email list for the year I entered MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane ... find something she’d recognize.   But the “hola”s from home, the kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  junior year, I stuck with the clubs I cared about the most and learned more about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs ... planning events and teaching kiddos. By the end of senior year, I was super

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same ... verify that you will receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit ... our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth - Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] Notable highlights on my calendar the past two weeks ... this weekend with my partner.[/caption]   For the long weekend, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  , taking new classes, and handling the new responsibilities that come with ... collected data about the number of steps I’ve taken and flights of stairs I ... foreign these steps have felt. Over the past month, my once-white New

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  an uninterrupted 20 minutes, approx. 9 am, my room on the fifth floor ... use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear ... seamless web around us. We say, "Music shall fill the air." We never say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

  decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use ... online, please visit the verify page and enter your username and password. The verify page is available now for applicants to confirm their login

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle--the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :) For me, IAP

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017