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• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you ... later that you confront the reality of what it’s like to wrestle with a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat ... know that I have enough experience and skills to really be of use. On ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of ... about storytelling and what sorts of stories I might want to tell; I ... ones. (this feels weird to type explicitly, since i've never thought of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  . Unfortunately, my excess of umbrellas was of no help to me Friday, because I wasn ... advantage of all the free time (well, more free time than I'm used to, anyway ... , since it is supposedly the middle of winter, I didn't think to bring one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  living groups?" Well, first of all, that's not exactly fair to FSILGs, as ... contribute to their own school of thought, they just repeat a diluted version of what was handed to them. (Note: I'm not saying this is true of all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make ... better to do on a Friday night, along with increased risk of heart failure

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  class, are coming up soon, and all of the professors want to make sure ... . Honestly, I’m probably overreacting to all of these tests. My physics and ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the ... Sciences. The departmental requirements are full of classes I would like to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  values with MIT’s mission to brighten the horizons of humankind ... of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  -inclined, shove your face full of fancy food event that simply isn't to be missed. Instead of writing words, I decided to steal a page out of Jess Kim's book ... get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... to take pictures of baggage claim, if you're into that kind of thing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  , money, and other resources to this cause! You must be sick of all of the ... yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  of the extent to which people here are open to learning for the sake of ... . Speeches I’ve listened to here have impressed me more because of the ... entire life. I admit that I may not be able to remember all of the names of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  along, don't worry - this blog post is meant to serve as an overview of the major, to give you a sense of what's to come. Notes: There is a ... , although it was also really hard! It takes you on a low-to-high level tour of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP. Here are the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... know it's tempting to stick with what you know, but I hope some of you ... 't had a great group of friends and suitemates to be my support system when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006