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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... Terrascopers from Mission 2016 bond as we await to board a plane to Houston, then to Las Vegas, then a bus to somewhere mountain-ey. (Look they did

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to ... to publish it just before Pi Day, but then COVID happened, and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  classes, i've ended up reducing the problems to mathematical manipulations ... (gender and media studies), for which i got to write a final paper about the cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  are scrounging through weeks of your google calendar trying to figure ... Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have ... addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in this entry. I'd like to be helpful as you prepare to submit your application. However, before you submit your question, I'd like to ask you to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... -December. Yesterday, we thought to ourselves, “so what should we blog about now ... consuming some content lately that has brought us joy, so we decided to make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

   won an £11,000 grant from Google Rise to start new FIRST LegoLeague teams ... now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  had planned out a google doc of logistics the day before. due to ... creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... 200+ clubs that exist at mit need to have people running them or

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  .[/annotation] As someone fairly attached to the Next community, I was initially kind ... EC history, but it quickly became obvious to me this was not a problem ... , seriousness when necessary, and genuine care that really stood out to me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this post on Google Docs as I always did, though our new platform has a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020