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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT ... space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video ... ” activities like building rollercoasters and fire-spinning. As proof, I can ... . People can be miserable in, say, Next House just as much as in EC. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  people, I’ve “defroshed”. I’m starting to see cracks in the system I can ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my ... taking so long meant that i was a bad person. i wondered how my friends

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I'M STUPID AND MIT MADE A MISTAKE WITH ME IF I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A BASIC

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... Punjabi dialogues that I just couldn't figure out (I am not really fluent in ... single person with levels of enthusiasm every single day that I can only

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  . It's the grad student run pub in Walker Memorial, which means I can ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  's Worcester. I'm going to teach you how to pronounce it now, you ready? Pretend ... . Very few people actually know how to pronounce "Stata." I've had just as ... actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... [/caption]   Everyone who knows me knows how much I loved and admired ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  your body is in, and I can’t really explain them other than legs are in ... sparring steps. I still am not sure how one would be able to use this in ... time during sparring, and I can’t really objectively judge how it went

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  can take in one semester without breaking your brain. You're welcome, of ... lab class in the same term if you can help it (they're often all offered ... year -- maybe one of the UA-connected bloggers could chime in? I guess

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  chuckles and blogging. While I'm sure I'll have more Jeremy-isms later in the ... ) "Hey! How's it going! I'm Jeremy. Just FYI." (talking about the Elmo ... have indigenous wildebeests) "Okay, we're in Kenya, smartypants. I don

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  passed over the reins, on that low. I can't really describe how scarring ... fantastically. I'm sorry that I can't be there in person to watch the match, but I ... for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

   made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So ... can still check out research in Course 24-2 (a program in Language and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... piercer named Owen. He allowed Priscilla and I to be in the piercing room

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020