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• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  at MIT and EC, the friends I won’t see for a long time, the freedom to live my life normally —hell, the trust I had in the universe. I believed

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  research at another university or intern in industry? Your PI has connections ... chemistry and the MCAT. I wandered around for too long wearing a mask that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : health benefits of socialization and long walks. Political Science: aka ... universe, and everything! Note: this blog post was inspired by Selam G

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... rewarded are long, and in between you can feel aimless and frustrated. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  universes waiting to be painted, and I just wanted to flood them out of my ... to school—a twenty-minute walk that involved lots of long, grim

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... ; *         *         *   On November 29, I got a *REALLY* long e-mail from "no

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  than yourself at any top university. What tipped the balance towards MIT ... level of difficulty you like, as long as that level of difficulty is "hard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  the Cambridge-MIT Exchange, which is a year-long direct exchange program with Cambridge University; MIT Madrid, which sends students for a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  for so long that the security guard got curious and came over: "What ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  . Unlike most other universities, it's rare for students to move off campus ... and on weekends. However, I argue that it's still a long shot from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  university known for its fucking agricultural school!” — i FELT that. with my ... psets late at night accompanied by best friends and long, languishing ... phoenix, or a pimple that emerges out of nowhere. i’d spent so long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  About two weeks ago, not too long after my 21st birthday, I climbed ... stick. 3) About two weeks ago, not too long after my 21st birthday, when I ... was still snowing, Takuya, Yasu's friend from his university who took

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  showed up to the airport and was greeted by a super long line that I ... come a long way. That's when Chris wandered up and joined the ... rip apart? and play with? yes please! We stayed there for a long time

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you ... post from being unbearably long, we will summarize. We lived in Brooklyn ... us up into research teams in universities around the area. We were in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  Khao Yai National Park and Pattaya Beach planned. So that’s my ... ), and selling Mom's stuff on eBay. Not to mention: going to the beach ... the campus of Hebrew University that also includes business training and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... could write about how much I long for the usual hustle and bustle of MIT ... write about how I long for another chance to buy a five-dollar boba at

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New ... growth. When I look back on all of the long drives west from Long Island to ... in a new place this fall, but one thing I'll definitely about Long

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  interesting jobs that people can do with a Course 14 degree that they may not ... ="UROP stands for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, a very long

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... ingredients, I’ll bike to the supermarket. As long I can obtain materials, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Record–basically meaning grades don’t matter as long as you’re passing ... other MIT students."]this degree[/annotation]. I think some of it comes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025