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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has ... really is. “Someday we’re gonna have it figured out.” I said, “Come senior ... EC and I walked back to MacGregor, where I pecked at work in my room

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  paper covered in blue ink. It turned out that I wasn't a bad writer ... out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in ... convenience. - When I was younger, so much younger than today (in high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... ), watching movies in the lounge with my friends... maybe I'll even do some of ... month. I'm not kidding), competing in 6.370 Jomar '06: Working at his new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  out of my depth with the content and I fell asleep in the front row of a ... where I can predict what they’ll say next because we talk literally ... , as i have done, as i can, as i shouldn't, etc."]“as you should

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the ... , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... set up our tents in the dark (read: with difficulty) on Friday night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  suspect that I wasn't the only one who tried it out later, although in my ... even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... to try out. I also figured that I had an excellent chance of winning

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  assume I should put this in the optional essay part but can you verify ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game ... because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and ... started work, i woke up to an email in my inbox saying that my e3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... week, and probably more frequently depending on how stressed out I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a peace sign, but, and I quote, "as an otaku, that can only be 'V for ... in California than Boston in the EST. So I'm not really being fair in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  rational than it was back then. Maybe in the fourth grade I could bang out ... sitting in the admissions website, crying out for me to finish them, but I ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  people, each imparting their tidbits of knowledge and advice. I was in your ... . So why, oh why, did I choose MIT? First of all, I lived in Boston for two summers (I'm originally from Maryland) while I was in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a ... back in college. It was made out of schedule 40 PVC and would shoot a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  portfolio, but I have no means to send in the pictures of my work. Can a ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... will be finalized in November. Should I wait until the regular deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car ... understand. I’m good at saying I’d rather figure out a process on my own

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  my footwear in the Simmons bathroom. I needed to get out. The roach had ... else in my boot. I was quite certain of that. But I still needed to check. The women’s bathroom in Simmons shone with a clean metallic glow. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , but am definitely crashing out a bit in my second. Before moving here, I ... that I can continue to say that I’m in the place that I am because, many ... past Nisha, and to all of you, that I can, in fact, continue to say that.

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025