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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... smaller classes in which you review the lectures and ask questions about problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  concerningly full...especially since there are more books to buy in my other ... everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  buy it again in the future as I plan on taking more Spanish classes. I ... had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... without the communication interruptions. In my room on a cloudy Saturday

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  ? Well, there has been a lot happening, although in some ways very, very ... post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... everything in in one go. But! Like the Great Pumpkin rising from the pumpkin

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  hope you’ll keep loving this place in the complicated, IHTFP, way just ... positions that are due in an hour... All in one senior evening. Next week, you might be doing that after an interview in New York. Interviews: you never

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off ... Back in January 2021, my boyfriend Raymond realized he was bored ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  water war weapons. I have sporks on my shirts. I chip in to buy our ... as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a ... nearly every freshmen male participates in Rush. This is totally expected

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found that having a job and participating in an extracurricular activity have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Canadian road trip and spent our days chilling in the woods. Here are the ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But ... enjoy long car rides with my friends. We blast tunes, indulge in snacks

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... project—and college—thinking there were just a few big problems in the world ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... notification in the social channel of Microsoft Teams. In my office, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... event tickets. At 10:00am and 11:28am respectively, an e-mail came in from ... posts in one month and ten days. I noticed that I had put almost all of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  -ultraboost collab shoes and fell in love. Like any sane person, I knew not to buy them ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... ’ve decided to remedy that in as overzealous a fashion as possible. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... students, IHTFP has meant both during different times in the year. Before you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been ... in at MIT if..." you love being miserable! Now wait just a second ... and wake up in a bath tub full of ice, your kidneys removed, and a pile

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really ... . Nevertheless, Big Cuz Q stepped in and has been providing some advice on the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010