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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure ... was obsessed (obsessed) with getting the team to Nationals (I didn ... got just dark enough for someone to get injured on playground equipment

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  night becaue you thought you'd get better rest on the plane, when you're ... 's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience ... practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... to better understand you and your achievements. ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one student to know where all the makerspaces are. PhD student Rima Das is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... collaborate, work with others, and rely on your peers and classmates to succeed. It's a way to teach you that you aren't alone and that your weaknesses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  should take another picture at the end but we didn't get the time to do so ... requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double major. This means you get two diplomas at graduation. Probably to decrease

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  try to always make the best decision, your life will later read back as ... blindered by your work that you will never be able to look around and see what ... change your life for the better. It can be hard to avoid the treadmill

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  you want to be when you grow up. Eventually, you'll get there. And it ... up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  side-effect from being here for so long - you become tethered to your ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• 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 / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break ... 't get started until winter break. My zeroth step was to clean my door

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  'm pretty sure that you're a bit more likely to get a bid if you appear on one ... for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members ... couple of things I want to touch on when answering your question. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D or an F, the class doesn't get recorded on your transcript -- it's as ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  , used to get 'em Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em.” such ... of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  ’ve been texting someone, and you’re getting along well. There’s still no way ... that seek you out to spend time with you – be it to get lunch, or to sit ... Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... audience, especially when you're trying to explain complicated research to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... otherwise, even the little voice in your head that's telling you to just strap ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  them into the fire and have to start over. Sometimes we get creative ... and reality. You have to see it with your own eyes to believe it. This ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017