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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  CTY, they feel like the opening scenes to a series of intense coming-of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  ://jspaint.app/"]Microsoft Paint,[/annotation] to jumping off the swings! Being a beginner isn ... our successes, we forget what it feels like to be a beginner. Suddenly ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  . After college, it becomes a lot harder to make friends.  As you go from ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... everything from college admissions, to getting a great job opportunity, to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  a dress to an interview or to work will make me seem too feminine to ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  essays I wrote for MIT was a dream: to one day make a video game that ... making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one-semester class) and runs for half a semester. i'm especially looking forward to 14 ... small children, only to remember that they are starting high school. i'm a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  creative writing, to make the lessons stick in students' minds. "A farmer ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a ... a trail for other students and earned a scholarship to a prestigious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... of making last-minute plans with people, attended a ton of floor events ... crushingly sad but also inspiring; I resolved to make the most of my remaining

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  city is so congested, living close to a train station will be one of the ... when I say that I’ve been to a place where so many people bike. I have ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... , super-excited about coming to MIT, it's for a reason. There's seriously an ... BROUGHT ME ORANGE JUICE because we have a lot of Terrascope work to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  to use. I applied to MIT before, so why can’t I make a MyMIT account now to apply again? Every year a very, very small number of students ... take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still ... thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent ... proof. anyway, i applied for a credit card and i'm expecting to get it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  are important, but I did not enter research to make a small change, I ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... ideas could be anything: sharpening a t-cell to pierce cancer cells, using

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific ... disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... lamentable theft of our student-given right to a winter/summer vacation, during ... ’ll try to keep it relatively spoiler free, but I make no promises about run

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  decided, in a last-minute change of plans, to make our event now centered ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it’s a real thing) to trying to get to find classes when buildings 26 and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  , and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006