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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  married, now with two dogs, for eleven years. The impact of meeting her is ... (though perhaps not for me) to compete GPA-wise with applicants from ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... the title, this part of my orientation period was my favorite and for good reason. During the summer before move-in, MIT opens applications for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that ... their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... , articulate what that means anymore. When I was 17, about to leave Arkansas for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently ... , then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  's shifted how I approach leaving the house. I can't just go home for lunch ... When I leave for the night day [annotation note="Am I dating myself with ... more into biking! I owned a bike for all of undergrad, but I almost never

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  seconds ago and recognizing people I follow on Instagram only for them to ... , peculiarly, where I went to high school. For whatever reason, the inquiry of ... which, while certainly not always accurate, I refuse to actually name for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  Philly. It was called AWP, which stands for the Association of Writers & ... .  Apparently the UA Committee funds travel grants for MIT students to attend ... hat and [annotation note = "the hat was too small for me and kept

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the ... complete psets and exams remotely. They were also super fun for drawing on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger ... ago, Kyler came to Cambridge for Visitas, Harvard’s visiting weekend for admitted high school seniors. He stayed with me for one night before crashing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  this post I'm going to focus mostly on the spread that I directed for ... : Nina R. '23[/caption] The theme for issue 9 was "chaos." As usual, we ... knew I definitely wanted to do a spread for Issue 9, and specifically a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  supplies for team bonding events, since we were all virtual. as a captain, I ... being responsible for the entire [annotation note="aka performance ... joining another college team. from their perspective, the best move for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... ’t at all sure how to write it. I wasn’t there for the whole time, to ... American Solar Challenge for the admissions site. Which made me think, wouldn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do ... marketing campaigns for higher education (GI Bill, and other factors…). But ... place. The MIT graphic identity, for example, is composed of things like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... 're scared of just showing up to events. Different strokes for different folks ... to finally have all of us together after being virtual for so long and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  we gonna use it for?" It turned out that her room in our apartment had too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... this whiteboard for everything. (We're probably a little too proud of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... MIT for the rest of my high school career because I so desperately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  feel like I'm being organized, at least for my sanity" [annotation note ... your computer do it for you. Starting from the app I picked up right ... out, eating healthy, and sleeping. I stalked the internet for a good

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we ... [/caption] 4. Create a shot list for each scene. Have a list of all of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019