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• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  back from russia and since getting to college and meeting so many new people and moving around and everything i feel lost on a much deeper ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... only to show a different side of yourself but also to get to know us, and

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  classes have been created, there are new regulations etc and I'm not as good ... holistic questions and helping prepare emotionally, not so much logistically. I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  brought MIT's varied schools together to identify and support innovative ... Delta V, MassChallenge, and even YCombinator. Then they go on to raise ... year, once in the fall, once in the winter, and once in the spring. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... microaggressions, the pressure to defy stereotypes, and the seemingly numb ... help you with?” I brought the story to Alberto H. ‘17, my best friend and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i ... true that most actions are reversible and sometimes you just need to live ... perplexity and cursor. i used to be quite insecure about this, but nowadays i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  lasted 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. Thanks to my beloved high ... and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use ... commercial that used "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Sam's Mom ran out to the mall that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  informative, interesting, and often inane e-mails. As she does a great job ... my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... the room to take pictures - and my camera managed to capture this one

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  and then Ruth ate two Kansas's, much to our waitress's surprise, all ... finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  wrists wear out before the rest of my body does, and instead of waking to ... , and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not ... running, and that pretty much cleared it up. That week, though. Jesus. That

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  ; Physical Oceanography from 1981-1983) and Course 23 (which used to be Modern ... expected to understand this alphabet soup. Once you get here, though, you’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... morning, I and half of MIT (I kid, I kid) awoke to find an email from Jess

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  and real time. And once you have a permanent living group, an informed ... conservative arguments, and actively decide to reject them. "Actively", as ... lived anywhere but liberal areas, and who don't expose themselves to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... either never actively chose to follow or chose and then forgot the choice ... with being productive was a way to simultaneously be happy and satisfy

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  classes and your tests and your p-sets, how much time everything is going to take, and generally how to balance work and play. As I said once before ... - and the reason was because that's how much the blogs meant to me. During

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  . Everyone seems to know everyone and strangers at parties are never more than ... waiting to deliver my spiel but somehow couldn't find an opening. And then I ... alcohol pinned to the top of the aquarium. The alcohol diffuses downward and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  classical engineering as applied to biological and physiological phenomena ... flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas ... generous number of problems to be solved and a carefully selected list of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... , and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first ... major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of ... with MITblogs and high schoolers who are trying to schedule visits and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006