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• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  MIT that seem normal once you're here for a while, but you realize are ... people, send out information to students, or also just Entertain the People ... tetazooglounge. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  throughout the country for the past year, with intermittent internet shutdowns ... situation. For a month, my father would try to call home only to get an ... Ethiopia has only been alive for twenty years? I compare it with the early

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You ... -together time for this school and people who went to this school, but others can

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  my data for the first time on the walk and send a few texts to people ... The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... I spearheaded the organization and logistics for our three events. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... mighty in the S-tier. Sometimes classes at MIT feel difficult for the sake ... laborious and difficult yet so so worth it. I signed up for 6.115 because I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have been such a cozy, homey place for me, a respite ... city I am learning to love tolerate. I'm living by myself for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days ... ="attachment_62937" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] strike for six![/caption] You ... lacks in those departments it more than makes up for in its gameplay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can ... , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... classroom. I LOVE arriving early, and seeing the number of kids waiting for ... want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... report for Stu & crew; I figured I'd blog mine! Wednesday, July 13 ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... admitted student meetings, help dole out prefrosh for CPW, sign Valentines

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  . Basically, we send a bunch of people to another school for the afternoon where ... time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... replied: Whoops. Thanks for letting me know! My most loyal, dedicated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... everything I need for months of travel in just one backpack with my skates

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  single, divorced mother working a full-time job so that she could send her ... her time and energy to care for her grandkids. She would wake up early ... result, I grew frustrated and angry and I cried for hours and hours begging

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... just thrown up for the second time in two hours and felt awful.  This is ... not much more I could do, and I set my alarm for an hour later so I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014