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• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  , I'm pretty sure that's how it all happened, but I honestly don't even ... lousy high school athletics experience, so I have NO idea how the whole ... she's really nice. Here's what I would suggest to both of you: if you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , floor pi alumni. and it's neat how i can say, oh, wait, nelson knows about ... , i had an idea about how to solve it, but when i tried to write it up ... 't write those blog posts, would i have realized? who would've stopped me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  people rode the bus, partially because the bus I would take was usually ... has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say, I am still discovering something new every day. Recently, I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... yeah, i'm turning twenty, it's terrifying, i talk about how i hate ... of ihtfp, how it can both mean "i hate this fucking place" and "i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  four a.m. psets would be for naught . . . plus, I felt uncomfortable with ...  yes to too many things, only to suffer later on. I'm still learning how to ... ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  even was, let alone how I could be useful. All we knew is that we would ... Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... mundane, giving me pause as I marvel at how anyone could come up with art so

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  , Cami, I totally would but out of respect for Raymond, I won't." So how ... my friend and his friend next to him and thinking of how much I didn ... and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  that I am not a match for, some which would be alright, and only one (so far) that I would love. I think my interview with them went well, but ... After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  ’d hit diminishing returns. And what would I have to give up in the process ... own intuition. But what would I give up? Would I give up the hours I spent in marching band, learning about music and leadership? Would I give

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  a river — that was magical. I texted some friends about how hiking is like what I imagine microdosing psychadelics would be — everything is ... being welcomed in. I would never feel safe on private property like that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student ... a senior, I thought I had learned my lesson, and so I worked on Sunday ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I'm a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... robots.Fun fact number 2: I'm an actor, albeit one with an incredibly short

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  September. I knew that this transition would be challenging. Juggling all of ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  a moment, I would say that the biggest difference between the culture ... assumed that I would choose MIT, but I was uncomfortable just agreeing with ... based on academics; I knew that MIT, Harvard, and Princeton would all give

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  that they've let me do. Simultaneously, my heart sank, as I realized how ... needed would be appropriately felt, but I've realized now that this is not ... and I deserve every piece of it. I don't quite remember how I pulled

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  make for you in Paint. Yes, dear, I do know how to use Mathematica, but I ... you had to say, out loud, the symbol "ln x," how would you pronounce it ... DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... concentration, I have seen just tremendous, insatiable intellectual hunger in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... , yesterday I went on a tour incognito...but how does one do that exactly? How ... the place carefully, trying to view the campus the way I would if I had

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... exploded. I envied how Raymond had been coding since freshmen year. Hated how ... not matter. What I would give to trade my supposed poise and speaking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020