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• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was following and now there isn't.... I remember this feeling very clearly, it ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  was clear. I would get all As in school, continue learning programming ... myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so ... computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch with chris from the chinese food truck by area four and we eat in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe ... never hit that kind of mileage before. In Chinese, we say "people beyond ... , but arbitrarily it was a women's sport in our school, while the men did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... rare"][/annotation] In my experience, the more common way that ... academics: junior year was so great for me in part because it was the first

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  -- it is this Monday, November 1. In an effort to be helpful and ease ... in this thread. However, before you submit your question (in the ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few ... it a little comical that one of the most famous attractions in the city

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  river, clear springs in the bamboo forest, and wild climbing roses ... to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... ;   Last semester, I took (3.094) Materials In the Human Experience

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and ... ) position, which i wasn’t super excited about because i don’t think working in ... linear regression in various forms). however, it did mean i’d be living in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... let my body rest and heal. I did bring my skates with me, just in case ... familiar in a place where everything was new and different. Skating was a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... ="just so we're being clear, MIT Mystery Hunt"]This School's Big Game ... layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble ... pugh charts comparing all the things I was involved in at MIT and Rocket

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  in lockdown so i never saw any dentists. my gums became weaker and ... general boredom with virtual classes, part of it was me not having a clear ... moving quickly, but it was only after meeting more people in person that i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  graduate students in STEM and STEM-adjacent fields. This was a lot of writing for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... trees. One year ago I was in Venice, fairly certain this virus everyone ... caught in this "not unpleasant in-between" in my last blog. No longer in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric ... come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast-paced core curriculum in math and science and in humanities, arts, and social

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022