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• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  your memories before you move on to the next great adventure, full of ... game that we used to be obsessed with. She was going on vacation and ... home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  this blog in forever, I know you only took that picture on your second ... happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on ... grandparents forwarded the link to my Aunt Marion, who commented on my blog with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... packs strapped to my face. Lovely. Since then, I've been on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  everyone takes anyway, so I'm here to explain how your first midterm seasons ... to others unless you're going to major/minor/concentrate in ... due on Sunday and Tuesday of each week, and then you meet with your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... different department?" More on the rest of my classes later, but I want you to ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  to the world’s people, new communities, and new ways of thinking, so ... [Chinese: Next time we go to China we can work together on sustainability ... reforms that focus on our young people].   You see, we have to immerse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play ... knocked on doors and reminded people to vote and got more comfortable ... one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... basket on back. I liked it, but wanted to touch it up. I began by stripping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  into Becky '12, another freshman on the floor. "Hey Becky, want to go ... the dorm we really had no idea what to do with it so we just set it on a ... walks up, on her way back to the dorm from somewhere. She looks at us

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in ... giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  on the Beijing streets. I was drawn to the "indie music" sign, but ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  , and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... squishy. I'm going to be on Medlinks Exec! I was selected as the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  to know exactly what was going on and looking really interested. At ... that during our test on Thursday we're going to be tested on the material ... every day at MIT is a new challenge to overcome. Overcoming it elicits a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... on my floor opened their mouths…and proceeded to shout, really loudly ... this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on ... ? What about financial aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to consider your decision before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fight anymore once you're here. UROPs practically grow on trees, and most ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... "r"; many girls do like to talk about their feelings, and many white

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  voice in your brain may tell you to do things that you do not realize, and ... your feet is in pain it is easy to move heavy stuff in a bad way to make ... . how the front of your foot should push off the ground a little. how to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005