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• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... doled out to him by both Fudge and Scrimgeour, the Prime Minister cries

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by ... Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  on my pre-registration. I only need to take three classes–biology, a ... being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to ... enough time to calmly get [annotation note= "I spent the last week of IAP

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  two weeks to get my mind off of things and also enjoy a happy snack. A ... stable, obviously voiced a little hesitation. It took me a while to ... to do a post on my skincare routine, but unsure if there's interest. Hm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  the post-college world, i’d accepted that i’d never get a chance to act ... ’d never get to do"]a cappella[/annotation] later, and alan z. ‘23 and ... , and getting to know anyone on that level is a lifelong task. and so

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  intend to spend on the beach), followed by two days to shop and pack, a ... different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the ... get to be awesome and actually save lives. For real. I know, I know, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... getting: 5 wired mics, a mixer, an amp, and 2 speakers + speaker stands from ... needed. for a while we thought we’d need to run the av and next sing sound

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  writing. But it took me out on the commuter rail to a part of the state ... end up with a black hole for a star). Not to mention I haven't blogged in over a month. Just a lot of loose ends to tie up, you know? I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student ... 'd have losing streaks for a while, give up hope, suddenly get a real, live ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... ways than one. *** Cut to a very different dining experience. Tonight we went to a Lebanese restaurant in downtown/Penn Court. We took the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... . Bangalore is as close to Nairobi as a city would ever get, I think. It ... 9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... , give yourself a hand. It's the MIT experience, and you'll get to live it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  [/caption] Ultimately, an unnecessary item to have, but getting this filled me with a ... don’t want to be stuck fumbling with a paring knife and getting ... that involves a lot of scraping bowls to get all the tasty batter out. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... on the show? I was contacted by casting and asked to make an audition ... 24 hours a day. Sleep schedule was up to the individual but we had to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with ... me to hasten and complete their worlds. Except that each snippet of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get ... Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer ... opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... phrases that I heard my friends toss casually around. I scraped by with a 66

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... collectively as my family) have all been very busy lately. So I decided to pull a ... lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005