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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  grand tour so I got dropped off at the end of the line. Much to my ... I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP ... How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the ... most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  because you really want to make your project stand out since you put so much ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... send a text message to invite friends or post to the user’s Twitter

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three days. Why? Because I want to experience everything. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , rappelling, and caving. They like it so much that they introduce freshmen to ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the weekend was, "How much of MIT Blogs is real? Why does it always look ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the world!), there will be an opportunity to relive CPW through the various

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  about to start happening. As much as it will hurt, people who won't be ... that does. I'll do my best! I'm now going to start studying for a test ... 're thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  : 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 ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you ... just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We ... , and really needed to practice. So to do dry runs, I locked myself in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  significantly much more time to figure out. Regardless, I've been keeping busy ... meticulously calculating each of my grades to see what I need on each assignment ... 'd really like to get physics out of the way this year. Thus, I need to pass 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  always need to go somewhere. I am interested in transportation because it ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own little bubble. There were many times I remained oblivious to what was going

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  independence, responsibility, and skill needed to thrive in a place as fast ... synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to make my decision regarding which college I wanted to go to, I was pretty

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt ... . I just… don’t like coding, and no matter how much I want to be ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Problem set"]pset[/annotation] partner. Whenever I need to perform some ugly ... at documenting all their work, so whenever I need to know how something ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in ... 's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  sprinted to Denali’s room to wake her. Once again, despite multiple alarms ... Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT students travel to Israel every year to teach coding and entrepreneurship to ... forward to doing these programs since high school, i set my hopes on doing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021