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• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  to take on a new commitment, you should accept it if the commitment is ... research projects so i have no choice but to work a lot, and so on. but i ... another undergrad who was looking for new bio research to work on, and they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an ... 27 Dresses and Empire Strikes Back; the night before that, A New Hope ... veins with IV fluids most of them had better things to do - like go on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  about on your first date Toscanini's -- because I have a free ice cream ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet, seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... homogeneity vs. diversity is such a strong force. I’ve grown to like being just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads ... new projects to work on, and why, despite my current courseload being ... ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... through the rain parallel to an indoor hallway I could have used to keep

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  a showtime into my schedule. ABOVE: Central Square Theater's new ... time and work required in order to receive a Ph.D. and its adverse ... 's education as a high-level mathematician affected her playwriting or acting, to

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a ... interface. I need to tell you a story, prospective students and fellow MIT ... much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  voice) had a running joke that we were going to have a show on WMBR called ... I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  for a flimsy reason of short-term convenience like it being easier to move your stuff within a dorm than between dorms. Thanks to a lot of ... mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  full and fair review. And we're going to have a spot on the application ... surprising to any of your listeners. But I do actually want to tell you a quick ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... would you like to see us do blog entries on over the coming month or so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music ... , it really doesn't take much to make me laugh hysterically). On the off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... 't really see a lot of emails on the eecs side, especially after i muted ... on your phone. It was nice—and it honestly helped dispel a few worries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe as a train that makes you feel like you’re on an airplane. Right now, I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... precisely a year ago, when I was but a newly arrived freshman on MIT's campus ... me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  days of doing nothing at all! on Monday, i went to a brewery in seaport ... of Monday May 9. i had to present a project, which wasn't great, but as ... consume so many episodes on a 'school day'. the next day, which was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  though you're on PNR or take a 4am trip to Seven Eleven with you ... conversation on. And I think this really goes to show the nature of MIT? A lot of ... this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024