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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  . For those of you in transition years, graduating high school and ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... 12!"][/annotation] Back at home, we use spoons and forks for ... .[/annotation] If you’re travelling, kilometers. Yards for textiles, inches for body

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything ... has already been done for me - check out this fusion performance of ... metaphor for the support that friends and family provide in one’s life - they

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at ... extracurriculars, and the ones I did attempt didn’t really feel right. Desperate for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... running around looking for the light switch, then ten minutes running around

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  books my airline tickets and hotel confirmation for my trip that ... motivation behind our team's product for the upcoming design pitches. Figure 3 ... experiments for my undergrad research project (UROP). I work for this guy on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... previews for movies that are coming out soon. Two of these movies probably ... " the wonderdog has extreme potential, see for yourself: 2) It REALLY

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... 'm not dead yet :) It's definitely possible for a vegan to survive! It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  celebrate, get that energy out. You deserve it. =) For waitlisted applicants ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each ... Public Policy." I was like "wow, thanks guys, for announcing to the entire

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if ... it, but I've definitely not studied for finals by playing game after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... was for those involved, but it definitely worked...to an extent. And ... Sam pose for a picture in front of Burton-Conner. Notice that Sam is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  personalities of the students. thanks for any help anyone can give. estelphoenix ... step. For many students, CPW is the first time they experienced campus ... expected. I have a lot of options for college (harvard, brown, stanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... aforementioned mud flats[/caption] I did a little bit of reading for the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... bed. She asked me an interesting question: “what is your one wish for ... ’m excited for today; it’s going to be a wonder of a trip. Hour 47: 10:16 AM

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021