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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  (in which I get to play with the internet!), that zealous nature started ... . Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to graduate with a 5.0 in a double major and double minor with a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  note to get those wheelie shoes prepubescent boys wear. 10:00 AM: Stand ... . 11:40 AM: Walk to first class, Disease and Society in America ... : Shar, friend in 5.112, leans over to say that their regular professor is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I ... 't watch Arrested Development, you will not get this), and he looked at me in ... town began to reassess its very existence, and how it could continue on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  get over how cool it is that the Pilgrims might have gotten off their ... her first check-up. She is in excellent health, I am happy to report, although she doesn't like riding in the car at all. And now I really have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  how much I did not want to fucking drop this class. In the five weeks I ... , ethnicity, and sexuality in both critical and creative work. Limited to 13. I ... 've found that I've really had to be intentional with how I write -- every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  College. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I ... ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But ... . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to ... finally understood I had to get out of my neighborhood I got into one little ... in this forum? Absolutely not! I welcome all students to the table to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  single.) First step to moving in: the room required a paint job. Getting ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... the C League (Leagues go from A to C, in decreasing difficulty), so for

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... on how good the food is.  “Oh yeah, that’s Phillip Isola!” Ali said to ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C ... given my all in attempt to get it published, but I burnt out before I ... validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025