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• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  through a ceiling panel and hiding up there. Midnight: time for business ... , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I caught up with the bright green track jacket walking ahead (my friend Eric

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  decided to wake up in time for it. We spent the majority of class ... requirements for 6-3 and honestly a class I've been dreading for quite a while ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... Hall Plaza, but I made it for the main rally. There were some amazing ... representative for just ten minutes, all just felt so incredibly unimportant

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  the right students who could be great candidates for our institutions ... process, picking and choosing which colleges they want to apply to. For ... . For the last several weeks, we've now been doing the same. Every day

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Verdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie ... ink-covered pens and people who were nice unfortunately picked them up and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... spontaneously reaching for the flip video camera when my son refused to eat his ... direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  consistently for the past two weeks, and I’ve realized that after 2 years, I finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there ... , I had Orientation at the Broad Institute for my UROP there - which ... on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  paper or musical staffs, so that you can actually use them for something, instead of just killing trees. They're also useful for clothing, as Ruth ... header page for scap paper and thrown it into the recycling bin earlier

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  About the interview... For students applying for early action, the ... 's contact info, and make the call today! Now, what if you're applying for ... yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Why are you interested in applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours for a few ... Now that it's high season for interviews (especially for you early ... same values, was quite different from the MIT I would come to know (for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  catch up for a bit. I also interviewed three other people for another ... enthusiastically, and we set up a time for that weekend. I was so nervous about the ... and our majors, colleges, and years. We ended up talking for two hours

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  ) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief description of each FLC and 21 Reasons YOU should join ESG! (Source for all FLC ... .'s Blog Post for more information. Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) is similar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  was dealing with things. I originally signed up for [annotation note ... "]Maplestory.[/annotation] I still signed up for 18.01A, though, thinking that since I had a ... semester—I didn't have too much late work to make up for and I finished

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  heart of the class. Teams of four, or three in my case, come up with a problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... problem. Zero hand-holding exists. We come up with the problem, users and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  learning how to cook and bake [cause i signed up for only cook for yourself ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... store for me. This Saturday, I officially move to New York City. I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... and I actually think they stand up better than my MIT application essays, but I guess that's not saying much :P Some bloggers end up putting up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023