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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... -- which, well, is not something to be proud of.  As my friend Steph C. '15

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  things left to do during the next two weeks. I came in with a list of goals, and I'm slowly accomplishing all of them. This happens to be an amazing ... has given me plenty of opportunities to run around the Bay Area and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... even know. I'm here to challenge all three of those positions. Being ... to continue dreaming big when you do. Just remember: every one of you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  some of my comments could apply to minorities as well, but I'm not a ... * Enough of this, I have serious amounts of work to do. But before I sign off ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... of his presidency. Well, for future reference, I think it's best to try

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... 've probably been waiting for: the food! Members of MINCE came from downstairs to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  vampire designed to suck money out of unsuspecting high-achieving high ... answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of ... ability to study smarter than your average freshman. No doubt that any of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  tickets. So the four of us stayed to the side, all very nervous and anxious ... Habiba and whispered something to her. We kind of just walked in front, and ... stage dooring (the process of waiting outside the theater to get a chance

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... . Disclaimer: All of these people are fictional and are being used by me to illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... , not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote ... submitting January test scores of SAT II. I also want to know whether it's SAT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... of each session leaves time for participants to ask questions, so if ... coming from a rural or small-town, most of our STARS programming is open to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and ... ’ve been learning to let go of those I loved that have hurt me. And I’ve been ... love. I’ve had to confront the parts of myself that I want to leave

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  Brendan, MIT students go off to do a lot of different things when they graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry ... state of doubt. I don't know what I want to do with my life ( I like

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  ridiculously grueling for me. It's not even that I lack all sorts of stuff to ... , because of their sensitive nature. People's day to day angst. My feelings ... , try to keep this blog respectful of sensitivities without going too far

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them ... 't. Nietzsche belongs to Sarah '08, and has spent about seven of the roughly eight ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a ... of career advice and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations related to ... interest of privacy, but this has got to be both the most blissful and the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  who I would match with and never speak to. Grindr was full of people I ... that I was either destined to be celibate or just not a fan of apps ... to be friends”. But that’s part of the fun I guess. We’ll see. For now

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... proud of me.  First generation Latino and the first from my school to be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  purpose is entirely unknown to me. Neither of my parents had an explanation ... -postcard of Marlon Brando, which is nicer to look at than the green plastic pot ... motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Maybe then I'll make it to the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  resume to my application that cites all of my acitivies and awards and then ... trick question - that we're looking for applicants to fill every second of ... saves us the trouble of trying to figure out what the applicant really

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005