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• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on ... me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there are decisions that i worry about long after i know which choice i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  I'm taking three classes this semester. That's 36 units -- two ... my technicals, I'm taking 6.006, Intro to Algorithms, and 5.601/5.602, Thermodynamics and Kinetics. They're both notoriously hard classes. I've heard

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  I was inspired by Ceri's take on VEDA and partly by my long-time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my blogger application, to finally take on this vlogging challenge. I will be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met you But now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you And I'd probably ... "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying ... . Background Prior to coming to MIT, I had one internship before, but the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  else Whose spirit seems dead There was a time, last year, when I really wanted to do an internship over the summer. I don’t know what, exactly, made me feel like I wanted to do one. I knew that I didn’t want to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago ... 't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... by the picket fence and little "Bryan's" running around. Right now, I

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break! A little guessing game.

  

  . I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going? Hint #1: It's not the Pappalardo Lab. (although if I were staying at MIT for Spring Break, I'd definitely be down there working on 2.007) Hint #2

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Public Art Projects An art piece that captures the essence of the title of my blog.

  

  This was today's surprise as I walked down the Infinite. I think the ... do you think? I really *want* that sign. I think this project was for one of the art classes, but I'm not sure.

  • by Bryan
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time ... colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... wistfulness. It occupies my thoughts as a mere figment of my past; when I think

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through the same thing I am and it's both humbled me and empowered me. My post

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I ... the time I randomly get the urge to make something it feels like I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . Janice: I know it's been months since we've last talked, but now that you've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn't a pandemic, I wouldn't be able to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current circumstances, I've had to pick and choose who to spend my [rare] free time with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff" crammed into four suitcases. I quickly discovered that MIT and Baker House was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006