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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key ... the Boston Public Gardens. There's more to see when there's not snow on the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  meeting for science bowl, needed to start a pset due thursday, and also set ... .112[/annotation] pset was much harder than I was expecting it to be, and I ended up ... -paced; I could tell myself when was good to cram vocabulary cards and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  . 2:06 "MIT is very much a problem solving based approach to education ... can explain your work, you're pretty much useless to the world. You have ... :29 The rumor is that you need perfect scores to get into MIT. Wrong Scores

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  : everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as 'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  people. That gave me hope. And I also decided that I needed to change my ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  - where people are reconciling the pragmatic need to be employed with the ... things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  are problems where you might need to keep trying for an infinite amount ...   To be Added - I need to sleep but I'll add this in like two days if you ... intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  this, it’s pretty much impossible to host an effective group gathering ... haven’t been trying as much as I could have been to make friends, but ... hindering my social life, as opposed to something much worse

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why ... . Undergrads need effective student advocacy as much as, if not more than, ever. And this needs to happen both through the efforts of those currently in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... overtook me. I could not do math. I failed to comprehend chemistry. I wrote

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  ; there was no way our team would possibly need that much time to screw some ... made good progress and would just need to finish assembling and testing ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  universally intimidating questions that you don't really need to know the ... , you need to distance yourself for a while to gain perspective. And now I ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this

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

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  before you come to MIT: as of April 2006, you'll need to live outside of ... of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  where I needed to go for this job became clearer. For non ... as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  , he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... tried, the moment refused to hit me. Almost accusingly, I remember, she

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  hundreds of activities to join once you come to MIT. If you are a high school ... opportunity to receive guidance and support from great role models, and I wanted to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  . Since then, we've improved so much. We needed that year to reset - we ... bottom." My stomach clenched. "But we needed to do that - we needed that ... much detail, since Chris and Natnael did it justice here and here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - that I will blog more this year. It's a promise to myself as much as it ... much to say about it so far - seems pretty interesting. I've heard horror ... I need to fulfill and serves as my Course 9 lab. You can check out the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  dissonance the piano drop should have caused, I decided I needed to hear some ... recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008