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• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  Algebra 1 teacher would ask how I was doing when I entered the classroom and ... . Who knows where I would be now had anything been different. Where I would be now had I worked less hard. It feels as though if I had done

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Rachel R. ’16. Accompanying figures were digitized using an iPhone 4 camera ... students. While many would say that these pictures parallel the heroic nature ... contact between their rings, at which point Zan (the male) would be able to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... I don't mind. Anyway, how did everyone's first day of school go

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  'Allo poppets!! Sir Nigel Archibald Blogberry here! Marianne and I ... on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say now I quite enjoy being able to stream BBC Radio to Zanzibar while on

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , exactly, did this all happen? To really answer the question, I would have ... real MIT student, I came to peace with the fact that I would have to ... , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... that much of the world yet. how am i supposed to know how much i actually ... research, and how am i supposed to understand the value of each of those

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... find information about our current faculty, where we work, and how our ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  . Other than that moment and a few others, I would say that when I ... .[/annotation]No matter how hard I may try, once I press the play button, the end is near ... I didn’t want to join just to have an experience that would feel like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  obvious, I would think, is that I'm not even actually serious about becoming ... thought of where I would be if I had chosen the fork in the road marked ... disappointment, or faced difficult or trying circumstances. How did you react?" I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  even be back by the fall, and that I would need to find alternate housing ... would be started to float around. How many students would be allowed back, what classes would be allowed back, [annotation note="i was salty about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  . On the contrary, I would say the majority actually have some struggles ... enjoyable moment, we then followed up with a question asking how the two would ... .   Mohamed then told us about his two daughters and how he would

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  ’t know if he realized how badly this would hit me. Maybe I didn’t realize ... how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... imagine it, even though I wasn’t there. It would be quiet. The cattle would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... ! If you have any comments or questions, post/email them and I'll be sure

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  surprise when I told them about my decision. Their main point: why would I ... of actually solving the problems. (I also completely blanked on how to ... of things in my life - how many extra-curriculars I was involved in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  thinking recently about how I love Tucson but I may never live here again ... I started telling my mom about MechE, how I’d grown with it and how ... whining to her mom at 1 am. I did not mention, then, how I did like talking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  quantity. How to food? As I'd heard before arriving, [annotation note ... scary to realize that I was relying on other people for my happiness. How ... !! I would like to note that I wrote this into the blog a day before his

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... would've otherwise. For some reason, I’d subconsciously assumed that ... I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  , how much sleep I’ve gotten the previous night, and how nice the ink pen ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... ="116764" /] I do these things and think they are helpful but I would stop just

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  ." How embarrassing. Anyway, I spent about an hour more taking notes in ... how quickly my essay came together after I put all the chunks up there like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012