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• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something ... story short I was gonna ASE this class and then missed the sign-up

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  i have no less than three different drafts for blog posts stewing ... up to a truly unbearable amount, but there would be gaps to breathe between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  -- but wow, did it end up setting the bar high for every school I went to ... friends I made at CPW came up and talked to me, for which I am eternally ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  would hold it up for his inspection, and attempt to balance the plane on ... studying for a 5.60 exam coming up and my friend Nolan Kruse said we should ... sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  opinions about how music “should” sound, you end up spending a large number ... from composing for 21m.301 and from arranging for ohms, is that i’m a ... for the sake of complexity or theoretical significance simply doesn

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  ’ve done a pretty bang-up job. We’ve got TONS of fun and interesting events filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  for all my friendships has been staying up to talk until 7am (helps that ... hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  leads the vision for the production. During the initial prod meetings, I had to advocate my vision for the play and inspire the other designers ... Gwendolyn’s hair be up or down? Does each actor fully understand their

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes ... 't the smartest idea; in fact, the professor might even ask you to get up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  assumed my “camp identity” of Smile (everyone makes up a name for themselves ... drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and ... lounge on Tuesday from 8-10 pm for the season finale of veronica mars. Not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  - it seems possible for her to double up on jobs and tell me which APs to ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours ... 'd have losing streaks for a while, give up hope, suddenly get a real, live ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... , two people. I, too, had a roommate but she did not show up for the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  talking with a group of teachers while setting up for the college fair ... Stanford for my PhD. I grew up in Logan, a small town in southeastern Ohio ... stacks up. Maybe they’re waiting for a signal that it’s even worth trying

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026