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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... ). Not having a board to write on in a math class threw off my flow for a ... Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... for her thesis before she starts medical school (she's up to her ears in ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend ... . I finally have a direction to move in, but for once in my life I'm not ... graduation. Where did the time go? For the first time in maybe ever, I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  and allows me to enjoy my friends for as long as they are in my life ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... , versus asking for help. There will always be people in your classes who ... .  Ignore them. There is no shame in asking for help.  The only shame is in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... , activities, awards) - we will use your QuestBridge application for that. In the ... am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... of "built in" policies for flexibility with late or missing assignments ... example, if there are ten problem sets due for the class in total, your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... literally solved this in 2 seconds after looking at it for about 5 seconds ... that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 recent, unedited, contrasting samples of your best work for evaluation by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine ... cry. And then I took a nap and passed out. I woke up in time for my 8 ... that I'd missed. I slept for a bit in the afternoon and studied for 5

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with ... different residential communities at MIT. For those of you who have already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  . Sometimes for the worse. Take of that what you will. In any case, the rest of ... , there was this bittersweet feeling in my throat I couldn’t quite shake for ... though it'll probably be a bit different during the performance for any

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  Latin roots this way. For example, in Indo-European, the word "kerd" meant ... , but you have to performing in a concert. Which may be kind of hard for ... additional opportunities for private study at Music Headquarters in Building 4

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  being in the area for four whole years??? but i'm excited to have a reason ... (a popular website for sharing fiber arts patterns and creations). in ... pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  in for school. It meant the roosters staying put in their coop past ... company so we braved the elements together often with sleds in tow for a ... of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024