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• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  of my life. I am extremely touched by anyone who takes the time to read ... blogpost by Mimi, ignoring my AP Lit teacher to watch Mimi's experiment in ... up every so often, but I'm usually able to ease them by talking to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  undergrad level. So if you come to MIT (or any other top undergrad school), you'll talk to your fellow students and find that their acceptances and rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  out on dorm row. Passers-by don't seem to realize that their ... easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  . Disclaimer: All of these people are fictional and are being used by me to ... government. By the time he was finally able to move to his fraternity and be ... assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... analogies, and are certainly not limited to expressions such as “Release your ... director, giving us musical direction, ideas of what feeling to evoke while

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... ? Perhaps this sounds great to you, but perhaps you are wondering – “so what

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... sincerely apologize if she wasn't able to sign your forms after I skipped out ... earlier tonight while waiting for iTunes to load*. *Not that this is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Freaks and Geeks, and listen to a really funny speech by its creator ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a 5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers to introduce! Staff and senior bloggers read our way through sixty ... bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... give a warm welcome to: Andi Q. '25 of South Africa, connoisseur of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the ... had two placentas, making us fraternal. We did some more research and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE ... Instrumentation Much more than rulers MechE’s must measure all things And make ... .0001: Introduction to Python Six triple O fun Is brainwashing you to join The cult of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP ... mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of ... break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went to Harvard Square for ice cream tonight. 3. I'm not feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005