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• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  that in a weird way, I am being forced to reinvent my personality–to find ... Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  blast and great way to force me to find time to make art! CMS.611 ... to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to switch into

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked ... at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about ... biked the town this past weekend, from the top to the bottom (this sounds

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the morning? Going to Steam Cafe© at noon. OK – Maybe that’s not exactly the ... obviously, I was desperately trying to pack in as many food groups as I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the ... that I have spoken to did not expect to join one when they first entered ... national stereotype, so we decided to give recruitment a try. Since the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• 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

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria’s International Mathematics Olympiad team, and if I wanted to turn probability into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... inspired and ready to accomplish our goals (the "girl power" spirit was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  headed on over to the Project Runway website to check out Ms. Eng's bio ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... "blogging" folder, which I haven't had time to set up yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my advisor. Much idyllic, such hipster, wow. To play to stereotype, I even

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  feels like something forced onto me. That I happened to be friends with ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  . All I had to go off of was their websites and some encouraging words ... note="tbt applying to MIT >4 years ago"]incredibly familiar ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... weekend was go down to the Hatch Shell on July 4th to see the Boston Pops ... he saw was exactly the same... but I'd be willing to bet that there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005