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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying ... exercise and to eat and to get enough sleep. And I know that people have ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  , it feels exciting. How grateful I am to get to be all these different ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  protects her right palm from the cruel concrete. On Sunday, she goes to get ... leaf. She's back where she started and took a long route to get there ... to Harvard solely to get fries from Tasty Burger, discovered that my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  getting them all for her, one by one, but to expedite the process, she decided to come back behind desk and get them with me and she TOTALLY saw ... Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  students get so excited "they sometimes forget to eat!" 10:05am: Prof ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  stories. The way you make your friends is to meet and interact with people ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT-related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  just happy to see fresh and current MIT student faces, but after getting ... for finishing the hunt first is getting to write next year's puzzle) I ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  what methods I had to do in order to get a certain result. biomedical ... lot about what the future holds for me, if I'll get to pursue all these ... For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  place you’re trying to walk to. So as a kid without a GPS in her pocket, I ... . Stress over whether or not I was doing enough to get into graduate school ... teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  . The closer you send in your application to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to appear on your ... submit your application. If your application is ready to go, click that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get done whatever needs getting done. The drive to work to the bone has only ... Each time you come home, you’re faced with the self you left behind

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... news is that I might still get to meet a reality show contestant--I was ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']sunrise[/annotation]happening? 7 terrace ❤️​ to “ 7 terrace ” Do you want me to wake you if you’re ... refusing to get up" "failing to attempt is the biggest failure of life ... morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station, I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  tour to know I worked in Admissions instead wanting them to get pay ... I have confession to make...it's somewhat embarrassing but I think it ... needed. When I came back to MIT to work (three years ago this week, I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... computer talk to you believably. Your version of Windows almost certainly ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The bottom line is, get your financial aid materials in as soon as possible ... Answers to some more of the common questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract ... were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  , and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in ... someone else's, not the story you're supposed to tell. Ife asked what it was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  with the Musical Theatre Guild. Should really get around to watching ... may take a while to get used to ("Look! A real life MIT student! And it ... An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007