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• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... feels as though I've just blinked and it suddenly went from March 7 to ... it, as I inhaled smoke and sweat and dust, enough of it to know that my

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

  We Were Deferred

  

  not regret. The applying-to-college process can be really hard. It was ... heavy it began to feel. We began to think about the whole thing more ... -messy-maze that is applying to college), it was that we didn’t give into our initial

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

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  it all in one sitting, while documenting it with pictures / videos and posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we ... ) during the last dinner of the week in Unos! Can’t wait to be counselors

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less than five minutes. I find this so absurd that I decided it absolutely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  I could tough it out. I made it to the kitchen, then to my room ... and call again if it hadn't gotten better. I went to sleep at 9:30. I ... handed me a pair of crutches and said he would teach me to use them. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  training situations can provide useful information, especially if teacher ... from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  . bummer. - i use my hands to talk. a lot. but it’s not the good kind of ... realize it’s pretty difficult to sum up a personality in these brief ... think it's time to redo it! As a symptom of doing hours and hours of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I CAN'T HANDLE IT I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY." On the last full day, I ... :)" Yes. I can't tell you how much it meant to me to feel so welcomed ... neighbors, it seems like as good a time as any to crank out some thoughts on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  to the public. Thanks to the Visualising Japan project, you can now ... expert, or just someone who has thoughts to share, you can engage with the ... lecture be complemented without trips to the lab? How can students be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online ... Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to ... . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear about it. Until then, I'll consider this one to be the best. ... Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  that it wasn't a disaster, but rather an indication that he might want to ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to ... 's just what everyone does." The bottom line here is that it is okay to slow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when ... entrepreneurship award last year. They built a spectacular robot, and made it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... to learn about and it feels very much like not-school :P (Definitely ... ='ok, it won’t actually be wikipedia linked. i use an extension called

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... ? Can we make it?” The Frosh imagines all those late night conversations ... ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... get it all too well. Then I went to a selective public magnet high ... was getting really sick of it. People were always coming to me for help

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  place, like everyone is excited to be there. There's nowhere else like it ... , coming up in just a few weeks (can you believe it?). The weekend of MIT ... time at Tech Night at the Pops, and I must say I'm looking forward to it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  start masking as neurotypical again. It’s funny how I can’t seem to put a ... mind, but maybe you'll find it useful. To use, duplicate the template ... prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... . Catalonia has been very generous to me. Its teenagers, with their patience as ... ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025