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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  mental health. A+R: Wrowwwww M: Don't go to private elite boarding school ... next semester brings. I'm obviously a little bit worried because I'm ... Courthouse Seafood and Milk Bar. I'm going to try and visit a lot more schools

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  we don't have a strong expectation in the first place). But this could ... environments. To be clear, this isn't a specific pairing or set of narratives we ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  on the team “We Can’t Hear You, You’re On Mute”, a team traditionally ... ."]2000.[/annotation] (And honestly, I’m not usually a great maker of ... haven’t done in a year, but let’s not talk about that"]walking onto Putz

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  : I'm sort of in the middle of a bunch of traveling, so my answer won't ... seriously considering it as a career path. However, I don't know whether I ... adversely affect your chance of getting in; don't worry about it. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have at least three bathrooms. Hey there. I'm in Leverkusen, Germany working on some important stuff for Bayer CropScience. Anyway, I'm not going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i've been spending a lot of time ... twice a week (running experiments for my aeroastro capstone). i've been going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  tower where I was was a target. I'm old enough to remember the feeling of ... blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... 's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  country, and then a far-off state. Now I’m here, and it’s so much better ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... the brain revs and pushes onward through a Problem Set. The feeling

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... : everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  that goes something like “when a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the ... help us grow into our skins. Good or bad. So I disagree. I don’t think a ... A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... thinking about a lot, and i'm trying to involve frosh with its development, because i'm graduating, and i can't support this forever. i'm kinda worried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice ... somewhat expensive. But I wasn’t sure what his intentions were: was this a ... was he hoping for something more? While Mike was a nice dude, I wasn’t

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn't ... I knew. I try to base it on wordcount, outside of school; 1k words a ... can no longer say I haven’t taught a class before!  Maybe I’ll approach

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

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  due at 11:59, and midterms looming. I can’t choose to wake up on a day ... in common - the Groundhog Day [annotation note="and maybe a painfully ... concept, it’s the episode where a character suddenly finds themselves stuck

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  not require the SAT II Writing exam (a test that i don't like much ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... , Long Island, New York, a small town with a tourism and maritime economy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven't ... content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  A. I'm a driver's license away from being an official Montana resident. I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the YouTube channel SciShow. I'm car owner, or at least a car loan payer. And – dare I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016