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• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My ... the town next to mine. I don't remember much from the interview except ... same values, was quite different from the MIT I would come to know (for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year ... Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... probably be higher if I felt capable of Actually Understanding Poetry, but I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  remembered the things i liked to do at school remembered the love for games ... realized that the big school i got into would actually be better for me, but ... finally changed my arm skin bought a car. she looks weird but i love her

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I'm kinda ashamed that I'm faking my way through the humanities requirement by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me ... . "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I ... with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I ... , Pennsylvania. No, I don't know why. Perhaps The Madman Who Makes People Fly had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and ... Tube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online, so I thought I would embed them below for ... tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January ... , seriously. i didn’t leave my house.   so going from this ~suburbia

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  close. Boxes will be packed, old psets that I will probably never look at ... world for the three months we call summer break. I’ve had the opportunity to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... to teach high school students. I applied for externships and GTL, but ... is 6.S087, which I’ll talk about more later, which meets [annotation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  It's been really hard to stay resilient through quarantine. I miss my family. I miss my friends. I miss MIT. I miss having a normal life. After wrapping up my internship just last week, I've found myself left with nothing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one-on-one conversations with students about their dreams and aspirations, and I hope that I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was ... me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could ... about reading The New Yorker so everybody knows I'm an intellectual[annotation note='I particularly like this article about Rachel Carson.'] who reads

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat ... . Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common path of UROPing on campus this summer. I lived at home (about 35 minutes ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse ... hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  I've only been here for a few weeks, but 'here' already feels like home. There are things I miss about real home too. Like my high school ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016