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• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  i can usually stave this feeling off and it only manifests itself in the early morning and late at night. i wonder how long i can last before ... can only imagine how he has survived without scurvy for this long). I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  team in high school? Now you got me thinking about the regional and how i ... I'm not sure exactly how the emergency response system works in other ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... small towns, which you can see in the map above: Ordino, Canillo, La

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my ... journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... , is something I jotted down upon my arrival in Kwazulu-Natal. “It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  manhood in my head that I've conformed to all my life, and I wonder how much ... One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... place. Placed in that context, how did it make me feel? Nothing, honestly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... EC and I walked back to MacGregor, where I pecked at work in my room ... .004 and my UROP code. I spent a lot of time in MacGregor last weekend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  -signers? How long/short can the lease be? When's the earliest you can move in ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  moments are important. You can make memories and build connections. But, in that same vein, I think the benefits can also be reaped from solo ... in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  . Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... Zeppelin Hopefully you can see how the name of my show is relevant now! Not ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without ... and optimistic afterwards. i’ve enrolled in many math and cs and biology ... the first convincing proof i’ve seen that we can actually solve climate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other, and I'm still traumatized from the very short period of time in which I ... , because I don't remember how to take any of the fancier ones. Also, I hate C

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... tools that will be essential in building a successful startup, and I have ... in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... (Taylor’s Version) announcement on a livestream in my bed // made Spotify

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both had pirate hats, lab coats, and light sabers (I know, right?). So, what

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise ... . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna ... of lack of education have we come!” I read Gorgias in 11th grade, in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  in Course 2 in charge of the 2A department so they can verify that I ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... still turn out well for you in the end. What should I do about the May 1 ... letting us know one way or the other. Can you tell me where I am on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... admissions officers and student bloggers alike, is "How can I get into MIT ... of it involves asking the right questions. Maybe "How can I get into

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011