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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  , should I ask him for the RA position, or should I just give it up and go to ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses ... _ forget it. Not to mention it really _is_ the basis for the beginnings of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  back to your dorm with someone and then just end up chatting for a few ... side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to ... questions I still have for myself and the things I think about as I search for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  meant I didn't pay for it. So how did I end up with such a great education ... , happened to have a natural aptitude for subjects like physics, and ended up ... mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... started opening up. I could see hints of pink. Then white. Then the petals

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  all my friends. We need ten minutes’ notice to meet up for dinner, or a ... October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... morning, I woke up at 10:00 am. I changed clothes, and brushed my teeth, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional ... , unwilling to give up its secrets. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation from ... i'll omit for now."]trusty Spotify playlist.[/annotation] The walks

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  it since it's for 3-6 players. But we made up our own game: each player ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... cheese cubes and prepared for the feature presentation. Alright, so Kate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  ™️(missed)   More times than I would like to admit, I woke up for a lecture ... newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... someone who actually knows you. for the same reasons, I’m also more cautious ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking ... famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  , but this semester I picked up the helm of co-music director (MD) for ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  the first real snow we've seen this year, which made for a spectacularly ... skill issue on my part). My sister and her boyfriend picked me up from the airport and we immediately went for some tacos before heading to my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  that comes up. there are so many people who are cheering for you. you ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... 've mellowed out, in a sense -- the furious emotional ups and downs of my late

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my ... importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  the world of Splash if I had shown up for the teacher training, but I ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... website or came up with a good research idea or resolved a mental health ... still important decisions up ahead, and some of the options will lead to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022