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• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... amazed by how well i'm able to bounce back and keep facing forward rather than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT ... mineral as determined by its capacity to scratch another or be itself

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year ... night and made me extremely excited, so I now have a compulsion to ... I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  those hang outs, I could feel the loneliness getting to me. A lot. The ... Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move ... to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  more questions, here is a quick FAQ to provide some more answers. I hope it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... /M). Q. I am an international student, do I have to take the TOEFL? A. No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Hi, Cami here. I'm so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by ... . MIT Rocket Team: a student run maker team at MIT dedicated to developing ... hardest parts about RT was choosing a subteam to join. There are 7 main

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  . Maybe it was their first day. Ruth laughed heartily. I managed to get a ... This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... blog. I hope you have a great weekend. Best wishes to all of you.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  to get a certain achievement. but im also not great at this game ... a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards, and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... information session was a stellar opportunity to "spend time with my friend in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  breathe. and get to keenly observe the way a breath translates to subtle ... the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... , where I tried to explain a [annotation note='double-reverse 4-bar linkage

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... , followed by a break, followed by two more days of work, followed by a two day ... to be read each week for 20.102 as well as a final 45 minute group

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought ... Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  Ok Early Action accepted students (AKA prefrosh), stay by your phones ... is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  live with thermo by my side. Then I spend so many nights getting all the ... Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... more. And because I was finding it difficult to start up again, here's a ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022