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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé, to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... after their junior years. A professor at the university where Asia was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a ... area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note ... a UROP for [annotation note="Independent Activities Period - the month ... that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt ... than if I had been actively stressing about the wait"]A short while later ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded ... I know who really likes penguins (enough that she joined a sorority

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the camera pans around the dorm room, it’s 8am, and an alarm goes off. A hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... -college life. You also realize that a lot of the shirts you've been hoarding carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my halfhearted attempt at keeping a Trello last fall. [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  following questions immediately. 1) When was MIT founded? 2) If MIT was a ... MIT is likely to face, come 2113? 6)Over a 1000 freshmen will be ... will you say hi to, if a new fish is born today? 7) “Are new fishes born

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... . But what you might not see, is that there is also a lot of positivity ... to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  because they were a long time ago and I'm getting old), and all these blog ... calmed me down, added a slight glaze to my eyes, and made me demand more ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I'm starting off with a huge, monolithic apology to John Curtice, mostly because

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle ... prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is ... a national symbol of westward expansion, Barack Obama's favorite pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009