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• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  was a no-brainer. I couldn’t seem to get the research out of my ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... . It was a no-brainer -- I hustled to Next House as fast as possible and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  help with a pset problem, when they had to explain it four different ways ... react to this by berating ourselves for “not working hard enough.”  When ... ’t come to MIT on an equal playing field. My friends came in with a massive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... , right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... a place to sleep though. The conference started at 9am each morning so I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  powder. It felt more like getting punched in the face by a pineapple, but ... -themed menu complemented by a spasm of last-minute surprises: stir, simmer ... menu (the chef and waitstaff are all Chinese, by the way), and ordering a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... : blogging for MIT admissions!) Even though I didn’t get, or even attempt to get, a job, I learned a lot at the career fair. Many of the companies

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to ... creating robotics simulations like these. A lot of time was spent trying to ... the assignments and felt like I improved as a storyteller by the end

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... comes up and everything somehow gets a little bit worse, and i cut out one ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... . ----------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:58:17 -0400 From: Ruth F Miller To: Samuel A ... , Matt '08, and Ruth '07. It's a little surreal to see Kenmore Square

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  to get your adventurous little self out of the country! I know this sounds incredibly daunting, and to some people, even a little crazy or ... have any interest whatsoever, try as hard as you can to get the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly, after years of not having practiced; a continuous panic to try and reduce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  of around twenty questions, and, after a few months, managed to get ... ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school ... from a small state mean to you? Natalie: It means you can get ahold of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  don’t want to be a person who is primarily motivated by fear (as opposed ... Infinite Corridor during a typical day to get from Lobby 7, to Building 26 ... always been a very ambitious person, driven by the desire to be successful

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Bose, a company started by an MIT alumn! I'm really excited to take on my ... , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  [/latex] (true by definition — a tau-tology, if you will), it’s important to ... ]. One way to “derive” the formula for the area of a circle is by taking ... support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I ... a class to listener; I am auditing the class now. Three. Now, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to ... drawing concept art. Yeah… I guess I get inspired pretty intensely by media ... independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013