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• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... , but little time or motivation to do anything else. In school, I had an average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... left except to speedrun most of my second major in one semester. Maybe if

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't know how to feelBut I wanna tryI don't know how to feelBut someday, I mightSomeday, I might ... Think I forgot how to be happySomething I ... same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor ... has an overall happy, soft, purple-pink (but in a good way) feel to it ... that ends well to end up with you.’ In The Archer, she says: All the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  , decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect ... sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  night until probably 4:30, didn't get to bed until six in the morning ... in the Infinite, as well as a friend to the janitorial staff and the ... 10, which itself acts as a memorial to those in the MIT community lost

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided to go to grad school what I focused on during undergrad how helpful ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  our GRT told him how to talk to the counseling deans so he could get his ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the ... ! Those are the disco balls in space." My turn to be totally astonished. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write ... in Boston after school, get an MD-PhD at Harvard, be married by 25 ... ’m in 4 classes this semester, and it’s been miserable. I decided to take

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  : From the way fat patients (like me) get denied appropriate care to how ... . In the fall of 2024, no longer able to produce thoroughly researched ... Chicagoland Gallery[/caption] Beading in particular is how I honor my Ukrainian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs ... (MAS.S65). In the classs, grad students would be exposed to various ... , a beach. It could also vibrate in a pattern similar to a heartbeat to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  . --Yan In fact, MIT doesn't allow students to declare majors until after ... freshmen enough flexibility to explore their interests, decide to major in Physics, take the first 8.012 test, decide to major in Literature, pull an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008