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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.

  

  'll want to do your best in what you like, anyway, so the rest kind of falls ... lies the curse: if you're not comparing your performance to something ... knuckle down and when to kick your feet up is a big help. Most importantly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... homeland of the Crow Nation, and is 95% Native American to this day. It is ... any state: it is also 50% owned by the government through various parks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . This is in response to the idea of eternal recurrence, put forward by ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... out of the experience, and I try to tell them, but often I get stuck

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  prefrosh are reading this, pls get your PE classes over with quickly so you ... Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you're ... As of last week or so, I've taken and passed the following PE classes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  people's confused, surprised expressions. You're the one that gets to watch ... . The location of the trip is always somehow related to the problem that ... things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to ... that you are feeling right now. As you get through the day, I'd like to remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly ... constellations and nebulae to Chris. On the way back up to Cambridge this ... friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... helped her make her way to the bathroom, bringing paper towels and helping ... - making soup, bringing Gatorade and crackers to the doors of the ill.  It is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  started to get healthier, I finally accepted that there was no feasible way ... class is not just happening to me. Sophomore fall is the most difficult ... .  MIT truly is a place where you are forced to drink from the firehose

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  native speaker to get any questions I had out of the way. I definitely owe ... or culture was like. Now my view is unbelievably different even to the ... 'm starting to be recognized linguistically and culturally by the Chinese

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• 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.

  

  into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we ... to action: “Is there any way you can send me a list of things I can help you with?” I brought the story to Alberto H. ‘17, my best friend and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  so well. By the end of the program, our individual team would have to ... the second half, things started getting way better. My teammate ended up ... 'm really proud of all of us for getting the hang of GitHub so quickly. It was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  's your boyfriend". So if you know that Morgan is the Big Boss, be nice and ... news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... backstroke, do we? No, you definitely don't have to swim on your back. The rule

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  ! Our best and brightest! Go change the world! In contrast to those vague ... reality. The world is so much bigger than your hometown, your high school ... without works is dead.[/annotation] The adage followed me to MIT, where it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... like to get their boss' boss (or boss' boss' boss) to write the letter ... is best to mail supplemental music/art/etc. to us on a CD. I'm told

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  back to my old ways when it comes to psets. i look at the problems and i ... i don't quite catch on to material as fast as everyone else. the way ... and Cami suck at 8.01" as a way to offset the tension i feel when doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... 'll be getting married in September -- our wedding website is here, for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... will waive your interview. It is your responsibility to check your MyMIT account to find out the name of your EC, and to schedule the interview

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005