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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... differently for me on the train ride back, it struck me that not getting into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take long-term commitments for clubs and stuff. and i'm not going to say, oh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... " align="aligncenter" width="1400"] apologies for handwriting[/caption] To ... Hospital, for example, [annotation note='as can also be seen on this 1950

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... [annotation note='future readers, the deadline for mit rd apps was tomorrow when ... this post']writing essays,[/annotation] this is the distraction post for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ' reassurance and my own empathy for the difficulty in finding balance didn ... . Now I feel like I've known her for much longer than just a few weeks ... [annotation note="for Paige, Alyssa, Denisse and Kathleen

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  I applied for biology Ph.D. programs this past fall and interviewed ... a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  had lots of leftovers for the next day too! We also made this same ... ingredient. We didn't have the red lentils that the dish called for, only ... lentils for an hour, at which point they should be squish-able. That did not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... vibrating with anticipation for the event, to hear everything he had to say. Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  tea for that matter) is an absolute no for me, perhaps because I ... his assistants take us out for (free) bobas, and sadly I couldn’t make ... entirely new world underwater. If not for the vast wealth of knowledge

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... kind of represent your home and, at least for me, they paint a mental

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  different. Granted, we’ve had this option for the past three semesters and ... .009 Fundamentals of Programming ES.1803 Differential Equations 21M.601 Drawing for ... blogs, for example. But with that said, it definitely was cool to meet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin”. But even though two women were the team captains, for two years, we were ... I am completely confident only want the best for my success. My UROP

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  enjoyed the class and think it was well worth it for getting my feet wet ... structures, and they also have similar pronunciations for many words. Some ... . shinmun), and many more. This is because both the readings for these words

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ’ theme last year too, same as the year before. I've only been here for a ... for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A ... -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I ... 't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens before I reached twelve, and Elaine St ... disdain for books that seemed--like diet pills or clickbait listicles--to be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... ’ve been spending my summer writing essay after essay for twenty ... inappropriate for my med school applications. Three weeks ago, I wrote a no

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... getting sprayed... For two glorious days, us engineers relaxed and ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  after living here for three years). She took me to the Maisonette, then ... I had a small (LEGAL!) drink. Thank you for all the birthday wishes ... there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013