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• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  new communities that you love, to fill the holes left by the ones you ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... can get to having an all-encompassing definition of the basic unit of ... biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... students to get through it.  … They made me feel like everything was going to ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited ... getting something right is hard.  It's not enough just to care about excellence.  You need to care deeply about getting something right and also

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... topic. Then I went home, presumably to get some sleep but actually to grab ... guys who didn't live in the dorm but nevertheless wanted to get to know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  to get out of my room other than just getting lunch and getting tested ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  my apartment and introduced myself to people that lived close by. And ... in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  by the sometimes not-so-friendly college competition to attend as many ... there is plenty of room at MIT to be intimidated by the freshman taking ... [by Justin '08] "We are, we are, we are, we are..." The Engineer

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... felt repetitive. I keep track of what I’m supposed to do by memorizing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to ... lacked the inspiration—and the activation energy—to get started. And now ... hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  to getting to know you. To tell you a little about myself, I’ve had ... that it is collaborative and that they constantly get to explore new ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... with this summer, but I do feel like I am starting to get a better hold ... books to practice, I spend a lot of time getting back into Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  getting out of bed to rush to my 8.01L quiz at 9. I opened up the quiz. Our ... online portion, haphazardly completing it to get a glorious score of 27 ... 've been planning to throw a small get together in Loop lounge, inviting some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the ... Caltech to meet me (which blew my mind) and a few didn't get back to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  was thinking about how to diversify their class by race, income level ... you can't say for sure. So if you didn't get caught, there's nothing to ... to one of these "top" schools. Don't get me confused, I do work at MIT

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  helps pay to get your toy marketed. By this point we're all reeling ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was quickly surprised by my classes today. First off, before I get too far

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... first world problems, and then getting someone who works at Media Lab to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... . Well, several of these things seem to be happening: physics is getting

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is ... attended a large public school, and was accustomed to getting solid grades

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... anything to happen to us, but keeping us near by just because it appears to ... learning, and if an education is what you want your daughter or son to get

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006