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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  -dropping in its home makeover-like looks). Do you know anything about it? (JKim ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... , custom fish tanks, are allowed in these dorms if they meet safety

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so ... that says “Mark as Junk” that ends up being used in these circumstances

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... mental health of students? In addition, does MIT's tough grading system ... go out in boston? A lot of things about MIT seem really cool but also a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  similar lifestyles, so we grew close pretty quickly. We chill in Next House ... bottles in the closet have two small potted plants called Sandwich and Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W ... reason that I should be awake right now. In less than 3 hours, I am ... walk inevitably results in a very good story. This long walk is very

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding ... project. 18.704 seminar in algebra. seminars are this mit math department ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I ... lived in St. Louis, the question probably meant what my ethnicity was or

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... self-knowledge extends to domains besides romance. In fact, it permeates

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I ... for like half of January after coming back from Russia in the beginning ... ’s cold. And we’re in a pandemic. As for cleaning my room… the class and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  years--was knowing that I was making a difference in the lives of hundreds ... days, whom I met for the first time in person when I arrived for orientation at MIT in my freshman year, who ended up pursuing a degree in STEM

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... through applications, an idea slowly started forming in my head. Well, more ... "]a written piece where every sentence was taken from a line in a song

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... family-owned businesses and trendy food destinations in general. I mean ... Company all in the same square? It’s hardly fair. There is a visible trend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... -eye flight home, and you see people you know in the halls again. Crucially, Reg

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i ... multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... dress and sandals (in contrast to my usual comfy T-shirt and shorts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... introductory philosophy classes).  Note: this post was updated on June 21 in ... level rose by 8 inches in just the past century. The average temperature

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017