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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  also met with two groups of M.I.T. students who blew me away. One was the M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students ... have put on scores of events focused on building energy expertise among M.I.T

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  students, who believed the Tech didn't really have a culture. But looking ... and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... begin, didn't think I'd have to debunk my own rumor. So I'm the new guy ... said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  was my turn. I handed my phone (man, why didn't I think to bring a real ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... videos. At the time, I was thinking a lot about the foods I eat and their ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Princess Bride reference. What can I say, I'm a sucker for happy endings. Yes ... create community for South Asians and provide a space to talk about ... that here! Friday 2/10/23  1:45 pm - Bhuvna M. ’23, Neil M. ’25

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023