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• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  ,[/annotation] but before this week, my last post was made over one year ago on May 27 ... challenge because I never had the mental space to reflect on my situation. I ... , plus blogging"]far too many obligations[/annotation] and held on for dear

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... ! i went on a cloudy Friday and holy SHIT it was fun. we started by ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself ... evaluate each application.  In a blog post on COVID from early March, we ... learn on your own at home.[/annotation] I want to reassure you that we

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... undecided on a major, I just knew I wanted one. TL;DR I'm basically a pretty ... out internships on my own. I mainly just Google'd some generic phrases

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... where I missed cheering on my friends, the texts and FaceTimes I didn ... have no class on Fridays. I'm going to spend less time on psets, at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  with what's going on in the world becomes something extraneous and not ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but ... escaped the bubble on a few occasions:    camping trip!  the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  architecture/woodworking/crafts nerd, I knew we had to go on a tour; I spent the ... loft designs I scribbled on a napkin in the car on the way home. Six ... on that napkin, and later on graph paper, I drew out cloud lift lofts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  , right when the application came out I jumped on it and was like, “I ... period of EXTREME STRESS, I finally submitted my application on Oct. 31 ... made (or think you made) on your application. This is normal. It shouldn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  on Reddit that had a lot of really good questions about 6-3 that I didn ... based on enrollment, it's lopsided towards 6-3: based on the same ... 'm describing them based on the semester I took them, and not the most recent

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... up on making the deadline and was certain that I had said something ... painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it ... since this is our introduction on these blogs. Here are our answers: Yes ... you get when writing the date on the first assignment of the new year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It ... choice considering all the options! — and snacking on some food, I went off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... like to add. Note your full name and "QuestBridge" on the cover ... accommodate you, some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , as seen on Google Images. What could be more romantic than watching the ... very-very real, complete with torture and capital punishment. On a global

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  spend their windfall on travelling abroad, working an externship, or ... stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good ... ’ll try to keep it relatively spoiler free, but I make no promises about run-on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes ... reminding myself that, while MIT puts an emphasis on having technical skill ... presented this topic time and time again, I focused almost entirely on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... ;QuestBridge" on the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... you, some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  on wrong (but I might (so double-check everything)))). (Note that the ... are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series ... . Without careful consideration and planning, I saw myself on campus with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015