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• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  writing  publish in small mags → during IAP, write a clear publishing to ... them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  clearly did not). It just needs to be feasibly completed in a semester, fall ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... competitions in that we only require a proposal, rather than a completed project

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... contaminated part off and drop it in this big yellow disposal bin with a caution ... keep in mind that as soon as you touch something contaminated (with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  website through an old high school classmate's finsta post where their ... ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... makes the "everything else" of our lives mundane and unimportant, in a way

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... in these lab hours, since there’s always someone right there to answer

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  something that worked in 36 hours? Were we expected to sleep during those 36 ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the ... ’s refining process. All in all, each challenge was more suited to advertising

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  —one where the sky was clear, where not a single cloud would be in the sky, and ... exist in the background of our lives. If sunrises and sunsets occurred ... demand or whatever.  In that same vein, if total eclipses occurred daily

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway ... tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... thought about waking up at 3am in a panic because a [annotation note="or an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... I had. I LOVE board games and games in general, and I love MIT, so

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case ... , too, but there is a much higher density of mythological life stories in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s ... or protect themselves from online education. Then MIT stepped in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but ... make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and ... , there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... comfortable coming and knocking on my door.  Many of us Medlinks in East Campus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  to say it, but it clear to meIt lucky that Moon is not a cookie

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  was very easy to choose a few and zero in on them, mapping out a clear ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025