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• 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

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  relative to the rest of the MIT student body. Historians believe that Kepler ... the MIT constant of Potentially Bad Ideas, convert it to Standard Blog ... accessible way to study, it was certainly one of the least stressful. Plus, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to ... pasting whole sections of our web site to use in your essay. (If you do cut

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... she wasn’t invited to my house, but the jumble of Russian-English that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  blog will have to be the outlet of my ramblings till then =p Just like ... ! lookee - The 2009/Class of 2013 Guide to Residences were packed with ... goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... to hold on. You can jog on the side of the train and still be quite ... , hang on to the handlebars, and meet the blast of wind in your face head

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... was pretty frustrating to realize I had wasted an entire day. That, of ... of the biology building. We have different mouse genotypes, and to tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  matters to you won't always line up with what matters to others. if none of ... one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022