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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there ... is connected in a web of yarn: a pretty cool visualization of how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know ... institutional behavior. Many of the best jobs held by leaders in the field, will ... problem, an expanding set of exciting career opportunities are emerging in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... Thursdays, I was the sole representative of the project in attendance. So that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  : Where can I start and how do I know? I've tried my hand in media studies ... creation and lead the team in very cool directions. But I don't know how? Or ... prince of Wales. I devoured the book in two days, and after I finished, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote ... far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... are there. Next we have "apple," and what I presume to be "apple" in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  textbook? Watch videos? Take a course? Let me share with you how I started ... school - I learned how to purchase a domain name and hosting space. I set ... chapters before I got interested in doing other things."] sophomore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  behaviors and beliefs of people who live in it? How can we change our ... how much I did not want to fucking drop this class. In the five weeks I ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... saw myself smiling in the mirror during the jazz combo, or I would share ... time), often rambling about how exhausted/stressed I was. My caffeine

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches ... addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... eloquent since honestly I don't really know how to explain it, but sometimes ... I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... most I've ever run in my life Attended two winter carnivals and even a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any ... gained from it, how it has changed you, etc. Another piece of advice I ... the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Shiozawa. Afterward, we went out for drinks with Germain. I can’t believe I got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture ... of the seats in the Opera Bastille means that the stage can be flat

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  the best people I've ever met. I'm constantly in awe of how amazing ... MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  opinion. I can tell you that we didn't place any students in fraternities ... can reassign him to a dorm host. I chose to live in Baker House (a dorm ... primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005