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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... was okay, but The Great Gatsby is basically the same book, only much ... not as difficult to read as most modernism, but it's the most sweltering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like ... ago, to falling in love with the second boyfriend, to falling out love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... to see this binder be filled, or to see what was to come in the minute

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  homes in the fall. 1 thing that's for sure is that the original East ... .[/visually_hidden] credit: Teresa G. ‘23 two: party visuals in addition to the aforementioned ... live here, in glounge, at the loading docks.     Here is not just

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of ... .  [annotation note="The startup featured in this silly story is definitely not ... this lobby is pretty sliiick. Two glass walls frame the entrance to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the ... first place, considering how much entropy he put in it.), Stamps, the kind

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... palpable, and the best part is that I have the time to savor it. I have the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  know.  But still the best way by far to take notes in most MIT classes ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... 't mean you have to lose the advantages of new technology, though.  Most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  myself to the mat, unable to progress beyond the most rudimentary of levels ... 're not going to see the point in trying to recover it. You're going to be ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  in lab. The most exciting thing that happened to me is when my work got ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... this is the case with other people as well, but I had the luxury to pick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Pass/No Record is not an excuse to slack off and not learn the basics ... all MIT students. MIT is one of the few institutions in the world that ... . In the long run, it's better to judge the rest of MIT - and its

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers ... -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  analyst” starting in October, but it is good to explore professional ... much jurisdiction over the entire product. If I were to work at any ... meets twice a week, and the workload is light. Due to time zone

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  to a temple, which was one of the most beautiful complexes I have ever ... few of the kids from came up to talk with me…they were all interested in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014