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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... game of life on the lowest difficulty setting there is. Other fortune ... and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  's new freshmen attend my classes attend a truly horrendous number of ... mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... been internalized. They grow on you. (For those of you curious, in order ... -induced stress (yes, already), and of course free food. Already, many notable

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... . the work of discovery shall carry on, but i can easily say that i have ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  of break. (Well, initially, I said "no academic work but I'll start on research", but of course I didn't start on research either.) So on Friday ... ="59152" /] On our return, I did several loads of laundry and went to bed with that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab ... Sciences department instead. (There are not so many good pictures on that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  continuous nucleation of pharmeceutical ingredients on polymer surfaces at the ... back in New York, and this is definitely a new experience being on a new ... the amount of work taking its toll on me - I rarely have free time since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  team that oversees CPW planning (more on them later!), each member of the ... . This is just a selection of some of the tasks on our checklist leading up ... audience of over 1,000. On MIT’s urban campus, there are only a handful of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  entire psyche is built on the plot of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn ... with both of those happening at once than either of them happening on its ... . I hadn’t made progress on any of these things before I looked out the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -years in particular to meet new people, so the show was a wonderful means of ... showcase our skills and attract new members in a way that being on campus ... -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... of unbelievable. I feel the magic still. **** Bonus: what we saw on ... here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  come from. I find myself drawing on the lessons of my farm life not only ... of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice ... of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  hard because you were walking too slowly on the right instead of the left ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine ... bring new challenges everyday. At the very least, I had a run down of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... have been around, both old and new.) Really, I think a lot of this ties ... New York City for the rest of my life and live out my days...doing what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... , learn their names. At the end of the semester, there was a quiz on that ... on top of a hill and at night the woods around were spooky and fabulous

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for ... Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... :   That’s Keith Winstein on the left, one of the creators of qrpff, a ... Fair and signed up to be on a bunch of mailing lists. (I also had more

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008