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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I ... long, fueled by the comparisons I was drawing and this negative voice in ... secondly, every decision we make does not have to stem from this long thought

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  Discord. I wake up at 9 AM after a two-hour long nap. My sleep schedule ... stare at my 18.404 pset. It's going to be a long night. I wake up at 9 ... it's a state-mandated requirement for MIT students to get flu shots

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  with her parents so that when she worked long shifts, someone would be ... efforts made went a really long way. After I got my license, I drove over to ... experience the magic that is my Solid-State chemistry class, 3.091. Our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement ... this project was to try and see how long the water source would last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  result will be an author in numerous papers! A long with UROPing all the ... since I last visited which is also how long it’s been since I’ve seen most ... theirs. There are people doing externships in other states and countries or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  it seems like as long as you pass the tryouts you can play. Just a note ... six hour drive became a twelve hour ordeal across three states. That ... home stands exactly as it did in 2005. Still, in Houston, I long for New

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  great, but still - six hours is a long time for a college student! I mean ... consistently. This entry is getting ridiculously long, plus I have quite a bit ... away! If your mental state is anything like mine was last year, I imagine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  State Building can kill a person below. Our conclusion: yeah, it'll hurt ... three hours - yes, final exams at MIT are three hours long! - I worked as ... possible. And, perhaps even more importantly in the long run, I learned what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  endeavor. I know this has been long, but please stick with me. The last part ... succinctly state in their FAQ: “[The Y Combinator is] a program that runs ... the way people live their lives in the future. It’s going to be a long

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  scholarship to Syracuse University, until the prestigious Massachusetts ... on American Indian reservations attain a four-year college degree ... his degree he would also like to return to live on the reservation where

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  asked, "Is it important to consider Nobel laureates at a university when I ... amazing universities, many of which don't have any Nobels to their name. The ... &M University. I had occasion to spend a week with the folks who run the Texas A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  dreadfully long time. Here is a gif portraying the eternal and existential ... ’t get the “yes” we had hoped for and worked for for so long. It felt like ... couldn’t help feeling the way we did. We had many long conversations

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... , given how long of a break I took from painting, but I suppose the ways I ... and universal experience for all MIT students. Recommendations for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... with my degree. I'm also going to participate in iQuHack, MIT’s quantum ... myself in ways that i now see had gone ignored for way too long. largely

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  feeling as regret. And guilt. And longing. When I was a kid, I loved ... academic prowess or university status, but one that's just about me. I blame ... blogs do satisfy that to some degree, there's still a craving for more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through ... ) Creating, revising, or removing undergraduate subjects and degree

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  long weekend, it was very nerve racking because we really wanted to pass ... like everyone is struggling to some degree, so you feel like if you aren ... up attempt (also really just wanted to insert some steven universe in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in ... laziness and (to some degree) hoarding. As a result, my once-barren room has ... -leaf tea to help calm me down or keep me going during a long night of work

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  road, but beyond the left one is the beach! It’s been pretty fun going on ... time, we decided to walk on the beach (side note: we learned walking on ... degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018