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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east ... well, so if you're wondering where I went, I've simply been on the go. :-) Today, I had lunch with Daniel and Ben at Anna's Taqueria, a quick

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to remedy for graduate school applications. So I had known about the NIH

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Pre-entry warning: I took the GRE this morning, and since I completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been ... two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would ... 've been 3 technicals and 2 HASSs/writing heavy classes (I was planning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester" post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... finished today. Speaking of starred items, I between taking that photo 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application…
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  Sometimes I worry I have too many blog posts that are just paragraphs of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  I’m three weeks into my MISTI, and I think I’ve pretty much got this ... what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  It is summer, and I have [annotation note="virtually, i.e. I'm still ... -mid-late-semester Stress that normally [annotation note="I really need to work on my posture ... . Oddly enough, now that Stress and I are on separate coasts, [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... " and Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017."  Note: Part 1 of this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... -present taco man spins his advertisement sign on Stout street, the same place I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  One year ago, I lost my first stickered bottle. 😔 Pretty sure it slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on campus, taking classes and doing research. How does it feel? I don’t know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of being a computer science major again. Why? Well, I slightly blame the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  said country, which in my case would be Germany. Too bad I don't know any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German.' Google Translate, I love you. (Edit: Actually, I don't. Considering the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I figured that if I was trying to keep up with my "entry every other day" pace

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008