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• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the ... school. Funny how things change. In the end, I ultimately chose not to go ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first ... of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... their college destination. As such, the parent wanted to know how best to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... sunburn of the I-wonder-how-I-managed-to-NOT-get-skin-cancer variety. Well ... big mess while we were in the process of putting things away. We get a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  . How do I get to know people? How do I find community on campus? For me ... can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  which we get to keep. Even those that are stored in some nook or cranny in ... my “formative years” in Orange County, I’d like to think that the years leading up to my second grade move to California played no small role in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one ... can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... know.  But still the best way by far to take notes in most MIT classes

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  getting in to MIT. I feel your pain. My senior year involved a lot of things ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... second, wanted to sit in it and be wheeled around and pulled in and out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  entire suite had mono sophomore year and I wanted to get tested just in ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  serious flaws. Until we are confident in the test's ability to evaluate one ... round get saved in our folders and considered again, along with new RA ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote: "So how were those New SAT Writing scores in early action

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  ’s why I think you should apply. 1. Applying to MIT is how you get into MIT. How else would you? 2. Worst case scenario—you don’t get in. Odds ... . After all, MIT is one of those schools that you strategize to get into

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like ... that I've grown to dislike my time in California. Only a little bit ago I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  get to experience two days-in-the-life of one, and one in Switzerland ... horizontal hierarchy and whitespace in our arrangements. Pretty cool. Got to ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  ’t try to work in a fog. I know how to say “May I pet your dog?” in 5 ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022