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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  for my email address. It's up there in the blog banner, and anyone is ... history. Since there are so many people applying for so few undergrad spots ... for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben's blog (about halfway ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... . I don't understand why colleges don't offer up more triples. Yes, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  tunes from this song take me back. huddled up in our coats, the last day ... see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish ... started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... ‘ur mom’ jokes, painting an apt metaphor for the psyche of the average ... murals and the home of a trio of beaten-up, well-loved chairs. The bench

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  for the career fair. A couple days after that, we stayed up until late ... things I used to suck at (ie. waking up early, keeping my room organized ... ="alignnone" width="1536"] as i walk into the giant 10-250 lecture hall for 3.091, i

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  that's why i'm revisiting this. i like doing media check-ups every now ... sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... relate with him on some fucked up level. this would then repeat again when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... that it isn't that easy for everyone, and even for me, it still kinda ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  accidentally squashing or over-etherizing them, and almost threw up. I had to ... sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... clean it up. Good times. A few years later, crucible-flinging me had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy" was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... the class knew who Bob Langer was. Half the hands in the room shot up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... : 09/21/2022[/caption] I was dormant for over ten minutes, watching the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  picked up just through the process of reading papers for this class. 21A ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... place that shovels snow for you. I’ve learned to love the ups and downs ... are wondering about this haven’t committed yet –– apologies for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I ... grateful for, even if I forgot it occasionally while in the frenzy of trying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  pansies sprouting up from the earth and cherry blossoms sprinkling their ... inform you” (or perhaps the demoralizing “wait a few months for an actual ... particularly struggle-ridden afternoon with a class intended for students with a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  ://listart.mit.edu/public_art for virtual tours and more information on the individual pieces ... first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968, any new building project or renovation allots up to $250,000 to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk ... engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  my pants, and I have not studied enough. We have signed up for it; we ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  indispensable!!!!!), a zipcard (I’ve used this to drive to pick up food for events ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... for life now. It also has an MIT Mechanical engineering carabiner on it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018