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• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in its exterior it more than makes up for in its inhabitants and its ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports ... 've been holed up in my room doing work for the past few days unless you ... One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  motivation. ??:?? it's a good idea to wake up for work tomorrow, so i guess it ... 8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... . We will grant a deferral for almost any reason (but generally not for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  . Pulling up to the speaker, Eric ordered two baked-not-fried apple pies for a ... physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ... elusive nature, up above the world so high, appearing like diamonds in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  , but we'll see what I think when I wake up tomorrow. For now, I've been ... thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake ... ’t hard: we cook for each other, which means that dinners are vegan, and I ... ."]September first.[/annotation] I’m kind of surprised that this has worked for me. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to ... . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You ... ’t just an excuse you’re making up. Not every single blog post you make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  entire month’s worth of pain and exhaustion and fear came bubbling up through my fingertips. I’d broken up with my partner of three years from ... watched the flames grow, it struck me for the first time that I really wasn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... so after "MIT: The Sunsical". And my follow-up post, "The Lessons I've Learned", is quickly rising up in views to join its brothers with over 2

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  ’t say for sure when the Plague started, but I remember clearly the day it ... emails to professors: “I have been ill for quite some time now, and it is incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing ... /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  celebrations must seem for anyone who didn’t grow up in this country, and wonder ... reschedule all 4th of July festivities for last night as a precautionary ... Charles. As for me, a group of people who normally live in B Entry packed

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  Dixie Queen :D Well, that’s all for now. Hope you could keep up... This ... gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as ... sitting for more than 2 minutes. But those who could stand to talk to me for

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... for Early Action.   Early action applications on the rise Expected 6500 applicants will be another record for MIT admissions By Joanna

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  Winnie. Hi Winnie! Ever since Ben Jones left we've been looking for ... upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  showed up too late for Meet the Bloggers, since there weren't many people ... 's possible. I thanked him for setting up such a great admissions process ... it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008