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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... friends in my community growing up, I hope I can be able to bring that new ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  should all move there. It's great that you don't have to move to New York or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... that you have to go to an Ivy or a Stanford or an MIT in order to become

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before ... enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  Spanish, I want to write a novel, I want to get a PhD in media studies, I ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... own room. I also get access to a kitchen, which I share with my suite

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can ... working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  how I do things in order to keep advancing? I mean it got me here, but ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in communications. The problem is, I’m starting to think that getting to this point

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  how to feed herself--but in general, the dorm activities feel more ... interested in and excited about. it is really, really, really nice to wake up in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  hour to get the perfect outdoor tracking shot in [annotation note ... their days to help you make a short film. And for getting caught in ... "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you ... . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  , everything is new. Maybe that’s why I haven’t figured out how to write about ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an opportunity to preview the material, get study habits down and start college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  me incredibly giddy knowing that I get to live in the house with ... privilege of meeting and seeing how some people won't even bother getting to ... conversations around diversity and what it means to be in a sorority and how its

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within ... in a few ways. First, I've been known to come in before class to get ... to getting a debit or credit card in college when we have TechCash? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  friends, but also as a chance to get poke bowls at the mall, try out a new ... awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  news... A nice article in today's New York Times science section: A ... Pinkett: The Tech: Once you leave MIT and get out into the real world, to ... learned when I was at MIT was the way that MIT taught me how to learn. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006