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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the ... terms, was the class I was looking forward to the most. The problem, however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high school and up until about this last August, I ran. The reasons why I ran

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as ... home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  If you’re deferred during Early Action consideration, you don’t need to “improve” your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates…
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  boring, I couldn't bear to show you more. The (much more interesting

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common information about them. So,…
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to the person you were, or who you think you were. You can admire things that your past…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  behind schedule.) Now Playing: Night Changes by One Direction I turn twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... come later than they originally said they were going to. I'm impatient and expect promptness. I don't like sudden changes and I don't like when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts ... rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New Mexico, supposedly, should have helped with that, but I'm still pretty

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  definitely worth a read (and worth watching), but I wanted to highlight something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years ... I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation note=" Seriously, I wish psets were due every other week, and we only had

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... , and I couldn’t afford the same procrastinatory luxuries I previously

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... your part. Yep, I'm talking about failure. Marcela has already written about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me, thinking I might have grown at camp. I hadn’t grown -- but I was starving. I ate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing well! I've just been ridiculously busy (that's shouldn't be an excuse tho

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... partly on what "fit best" with our real personalities. I was horrified ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours to San Diego to attend TwitchCon 2022. Perhaps to no one's surprise, I ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023