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• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  about MIT for me is definitely how hard I’ve fallen in love with it. Sure ... entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  how to play the piano. I can't say I like it more than any of my physics ... Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  be an imperfect fit. I was more interested in how the models being used ... of grad school: how crazy is it that I can just keep studying, keep ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  wonder: how can i support and motivate myself in the same way my friend was ... dedication of the self, and this naruto battle… well, i suppose you can ... explained that i was extremely spiky in high school and had been transitioning

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at ... that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... , social atmosphere, religious opportunities, etc. I also thought about how ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... assignment systems. It’s still very much in the works, but I hope to talk more ... 2020, I continued a tradition started in 2019 where ESP members went to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... heavily invested during soccer matches; it’s a fact. I can barely stay still in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how ... the central decision-maker in this situation is ourselves, we can't help

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone ... last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... classroom … etc. and 2) Open up! …I can think of a handful of situations where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their ... boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don ... 's typically pretty loose, and as long as I put in a full day, my exact arrival

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I ... answers.[/annotation] I can ask the questions that I wouldn’t have asked in ... Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not ... it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. - I actually was in Alaska ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this ... like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hit - how are you doing? Where are you staying? What can we do to help ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  in my emails.I do not know how not to Feel, Think, or have things Seem To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing ... to compete. I [annotation note="we live in a society, man"]can't fix

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the ... more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want ... . Foresight can be 20/20, too! All myopia jokes aside, here's what I'd like to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020