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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  getting used to. An RAship is more like having a job and less like being a ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... students) high school was a relatively straight path. I knew I was going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  enough to try to get there. " Minimum score on TOEFL is 233/577/90 (CBT ... , my goal is to get accepted into MIT. I would like to learn more about ... presume if i got rejected from MIT, I will probably get rejected from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  's not just an abstract stream of verse that I feel pressured to “get ... since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... wanted this to be recognized. Instead I just felt relieved that there was

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  someone to just know me already and get past all of that and exist in a way ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... 't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... saying this."]“difficult to harness and leash” (because he gets too excited

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —that I missed it. I missed getting the chance to make art with other people ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... quickly, almost feverishly, as I could to get down as much 8.012 knowledge ... . Because when you get right down to it, there's really no simpler way to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... -school counselors get together, they have plenty of stories to share about encounters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  for the server and often get together to get into their "roles." It ... animatics have genuinely..made me want to get back into writing and reading ... 'm really excited to get back into it. I turned into an avid gymgoer upon

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  /she traveled the furthest to get to Splash. 7-8 hands go up. A girl says she ... want to learn about Islam. I ask her for a lesson. We get drinks, snacks ... Mexico. Occasionally, they get a little chatty, but all it takes to silence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  immediately came to mind. the next step was figuring out how to get permission ... students could get a chance to see it. sadly, Karyn is taking down the ... least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to ... headphones during trips through the Infinite to get to class or the Edgerton ... that we were watching it together. And they’d get up to play pool but I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... you will get. I'm writing a separate blogpost on my tips and tricks to ... how long I waited to get that spot. It'll be the artist, the date, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  importance because you might just pay attention to the little things and get ... order a bed from Amazon, IKEA, or Wayfair; I ended up deciding to get an ... taking this semester that I will never get a chance to :( Introduction

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  're vibing with, and these 'board picks' would then get posted to the account ... to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  something you'll have to get used to at MIT. The fact that this wasn't as ... time, you may have noticed a few trends. Every year, each blogger gets ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  who I knew was getting to Madrid the same day as me to start her job ... , so we'll be sure to visit some of the more famous places when she gets ... the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008