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• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  technically. It isn't a Course 6 requirement. Alright, do I at least ... succumbed, and I just don't feel good. I am rethinking. I've been thinking a ... I've gotten a small taste of what that is like, I'm wondering if I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I’m ... ="490"] Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne[/caption] I’m 19 and a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  , like a newborn baby does, that the world doesn't end when you do. I'm ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... , and that it was a thing I could do. And now, I'm well along that journey

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some time and read it, you won't regret it: The Prodigy Puzzle I'm glad the ... " - to feel they aren't demonized and will find a niche, but not to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn't a pandemic, I wouldn't be able to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... think about last year, I feel like I'm missing out on a host of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn't ... high school, they wouldn't have even bat an eye at my existence. A ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C ... . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... 's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... always welcome, and wouldn't put you at a disadvantage. existential ... asks, "Also, I'm applying next year but I was wondering when a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  morning as I was riding the T to that other school I take a class at, I ... heaven. And the fact is that a lot of times, you don't even need the Subway ... Illinois, I wouldn't have *matriculated. Though the MIT campus within itself

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... textbook, so he didn't even have to pay for a book!   Warren ... I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  application process kinda messed me up and i'm still unlearning a lot of things ... : Over the years, I’ve bought a bunch of sketchbooks but haven’t actually ... didn’t get around to writing a short story, but I made an outline of one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  ? Questions that I'm actually answering: 1. To reiterate, I don't know where I'm ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you ... their research experience for PhD admissions, but a master's isn't a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of ... as a harmless sounding “Exam 1”. I also don’t like how I borderline ... !!!) multiple ideas to solve a key problem. Yeahhhhhhhhhh--- I don’t like the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  the weather to be over 50 degrees. It's a simmering 70 degrees here--t ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... competition. Our plane, having been shipped last week in a big wooden crate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this ... take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology ... interesting, and it fit in a really nice place in my schedule. (Don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  have Microsoft Word on Athena) and Firefox. Haha. I'm probably a terrible ... , it's a great program, apply to it!!!!) But in all seriousness, I'm ... history classes. I must admit this had been a really new experience, but I'm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  've seen it by now. Three plays: Maybe that's how life is. There isn't* a ... 's a heavy-handed metaphor for how you don't notice time passing until it ... resolution to, but kinda forgot, oops. I wanted to go for a "maybe it doesn't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... in your wallet?” “I’m not telling you.” For some reason, I didn’t want ... and that this wasn’t just a fever dream, and things started to calm down

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why ... most fun way to watch a movie, so we don’t do that. Instead, the ... . Missing a changeover isn’t the end of the world, but it’s tradition for the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  different from high school - I don't get jealous. (okay, maybe I get a little ... whatever). Because I don't want college to be just a natural extension of ... . Call me a masochist, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Love, Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012