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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... entry for you other clueless '09ers. Right. So, just a note- the rest of ... page and the font is some hideous shade of purple or something, don't be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions today on MIT FB, and it reminds me of the time when I applied to MIT ... Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab, talking about the most futuristic interfaces ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  for the evening, because MIT is calling YOU! That's right, tonight is the Early Action telethon when current students spend their evening ... the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I ... long. Where did the actors go? So I go on eating through the bottom of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... , took all of the pictures of all of the things, and own so many variations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  back to the intensity and rigor of MIT, has been these daylong or two ... toooo much. I had a stomach ache for the rest of the night). Tuesday, I ... roommate instead. The rest of the week I became potato.  I'm not really sure

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... . Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own ... long looking for the light at the end of the tunnel   water you

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the ... fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn of events for August, Boston has been graced with cloudy skies, unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  was for me. For those of you that have been with me for the long haul ... future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to ... the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest changes between high school and college is just the amount of freedom you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... 'll see that this is a place of heartbreaking defeats -- but at the same ... , write all the notes, finish your work at the end of the day and go home

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... this side of the coin paints an incomplete picture. At the same time that ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  turbine (nicknamed velociwind) that my team and I built as part of the ... together so I could culture myself in the world of eateries. We ended up ... ;   6. Clearly, mastering the art of wearing a sleeping mask: was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on ... you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... -written. Two of the forthcoming entries will introduce you to two new additions ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... professional artist, but I was hit with the familiar panic of damn am I the worst

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... is a blast, but my favorite part of this program has been meeting the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014