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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing. But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  for the Research Science Institute has been keeping me busy in the ... for RSI/MITES/WTP college night. I mention the college night in a blog ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... attended MIT in many, many years. Not many apply, but when they do, even if ... , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . FOR ONCE. I’ve been in America for three years, and I feel wholly ... infinite. I was filled with boyish wonder, and I was ready for my grand ... . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work ... the 4 mounting hole for the lazy susan in addition to 3 holes arranged in a triangle. The three holes were supposed to be for a slip ring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  still uncomfortable enough for me to throw them in the laundry bag. Taking ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I ... make custom cardpacks with this website for good inside jokes Settlers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really ... bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  differently in different people. It's impossible for a formula to exist. case ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the ... left insignificant in face of one final four-digit score. Scores that now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because it was also true for everyone around me. None of my friends knew what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... Twitter newsfeed for too long. I check Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr. Everywhere ... don't know how to feel. We will be sitting quietly in Lobby 7 all day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation ... -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... requirements for my major, I decided that this fall semester was the perfect time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  making moving forward. In this respect MIT intends for its future to be as ... : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... myself and my colleague Dawn Wendell, a Senior Lecturer in Course 2 (and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  CK '10 with a welcome ceremony for all our campers, in which counselors ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  college. Unfortunately, I left the cords for my HDD in Boston, so I've got ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences with airplanes in the last 2 years have involved delays, cold, snow, and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... in our names and sizes. I realized right away what they had done. They ... course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... around her neck - lost herself in books. Her mother was rarely home and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  for good. They nurtured my love for learning in and of itself. Plus ... . My biggest passions are for raising money for Partners in Health and ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025