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• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  My Mondays are horrible. I'm thinking about bringing a camera with me ... :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... : Astronomy Lab Last Monday (actually it was Tuesday morning) I was on my way

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I'll have more real updates soon - I actually have some planned - but I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... still passed. However, shortly after getting my test I exclaimed, "Shoot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  , and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an ... off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time was because I spent my summer with my friends. I don't really know how

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  Okay, here's that "real entry" I promised yesterday. First some pic explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this fun fact started feeling disingenuous as I strayed further and further

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19, and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the ... . You might notice, as you read this, that I switch between House and Haus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  ask! Seriously, you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is ... (Class of '25, he/him)Hi everyone! I’m Andi, a 6-2 (Electrical Engineering ... ) minor from South Africa. Some fun facts about me: I am left

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... ="alignnone" width="226"] my hefty yellow bag[/caption] I only caught the late train

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... Medical. After the x-ray, MIT Medical forgot I was there (I realized something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  ?....did you like it or hate it? I think that's an interesting question, albeit ... later experience. So I'm going to try and cite from primary sources (that ... concerned with boys, but I'll try valiantly to pick out the pieces that aren

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  Activities Today I am inspired by Christina (my favorite off ... cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... . [caption id="attachment_49456" align="aligncenter" width="640"] i don’t have a picture so i went to wikipedia and i saw this picture and thought it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map beforehand. If you haven’t visited MIT before, let me warn you (as I wish someone

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.