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• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  with a Pinterest board dedicated to being an [annotation note="One of 16 ... , naturally, I thought that I ~had~ to be an extrovert in order to be successful ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I ... be, it’s going to hit a ceiling and break into pieces. There’s only so ... ashamed. Two, if you're really determined to overwork something, at least by

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  catch up to it and I’ll have to get a new one. Maybe by then I will be ... changing the course of a past reckoning, but I’ve learned to leave it be by ... ’t have the skills. “What do you mean I need to rest? This can’t possibly be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  -broadening way. Coming into MIT, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up ... students, by the way), so hopefully you can get another entry to this effect ... . Engineering doesn't really work that way--although more jobs are open to you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... . I thought that the conversation might be relevant to you too, so here ... bunch of bills to pay and I don’t really want to be a burden on them. I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  is secreted by dead ants, it will allow itself to be carried there ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being ... ) we took the old ask.mitadmissions.org, which used to be an external

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little ... your room to how to decide whether you should go to class can be a ... until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can ... of the summer #1. I’m a junior? It’s about to be Year 3 of MIT and I ... philosopher. I know two or more MIT professors who I would love to be, for their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be ... always keep in mind that students may run on a different clock, and to be ... also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  this year's senior bloggers: Laura and Lulu. Our objective will be to ... , but will not rule it out). To be considered for a blogger position, you ... : Blog/writing stuff Provide a link to your "portfolio." This will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach city counterpart in Cornwall. you may be wondering why i’m here. i ... make the stuff discovered by the research team into real things people

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  something you're curious about - a UROP would be a great way to learn about it ... simple as "to be," to as specific as "a part of a celebration in which a ... about anything at all and can show the knowledge or motivation to be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  heads. They like being mentioned and like trying to squeeze their way in ... 'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... closest things I had to a brother and a sister. It was really nice to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  good way to meet new people. By virtue of being HASS, they tend to ... roofdeck . . . anyway, I digress. **Way to steal my polysyllabic descriptors ... class’s topic, or even because they are required to by the results of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  through TSA and then made our way to our gate. Once we settled, everyone ... process for people who want to be founders.       I ... conference center and I decided to finish the day by attending a Google panel

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  apologize in advance to any animal rights people who may be offended by this ... players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... surgery). One of the ways we do this is by synthesizing various hydrogels

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be ... temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn ... 't imagine spending their IAP any other way. The end. Thanks to all the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  actually going to the ball went by really quickly, and before I knew it, it ... special transcription factor to help me unwind. --Hey baby, can I be your ... would be a great idea to use blue and white striped plastic bands that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered ... . But there are pros to being a HASS major at MIT as well (and there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015