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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... Novemburn would fall on the same week as my conference deadline, I almost ... however, I hit the sleep equivalent of a thermocline once I realized how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  of how things were playing out. I remember, during IAP (Independent ... the people I would work with. Many of the latter became the former (MIT students would utter the words trauma bonding, I won't go that far

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  letter,[/annotation] which makes me question how badly I would’ve done if I ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... did eventually, last semester, but i pushed it to the end!"]learn how to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  commencement, here's one insight that I would share with past, present, and ... of that would have happened had I not felt like trying something out ... this principle from my entire life might actually be how I met that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... would react in each of the three outcomes, and I kept comparing myself to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... pathogens. (If I were cooler, it would be good to actually replace the broken ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... together. I helped build a robot. The competition's today, and we'll see how ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  people, and how we go about implementing these technologies. I personally ... my non-technical work experience would’ve disadvantaged me had I not ... honestly don’t really know how much these mattered, but I think it’s not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  with friends, taking advantage of suddenly-open afternoons. i would see people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever ... how does it feel? and i said i couldn't explain it, i felt like i had

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... . Even so, my audience, on this blog, is far larger than I would have

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  something about how I didn’t think so, no, and I personally wasn’t an engineering major, actually. I didn’t ask him how he defined “merit.” I didn ... how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... 18[/caption] If I could write a book on Freshman Fall, it would ... The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  around the idea of learning without structure, but i'm excited to see how ... briefly freaked out about the possibility that i would have decided to ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry, painting ... , research etc) ?? I am an international applicant, and I will definitly be majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  + Community at MIT, I asked current and former bloggers if they would be willing ... ) made coming out videos. And I didn’t know how I felt about it, because I didn’t have the words to express how I felt, but looking back at that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  HOW HOW HOW can I make this bigger/smaller/faster/better?". You still ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... -preserved 82-year-old form. Especially because I really thought he was dead. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... unsure about how much control we would have over shaping the newly ... My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  busy and wistfully looking around. I wonder if it would be weird to ... probably would, so I check up on celebrity gossip and the code I’m running ... )). I had no idea how many drafts (six, though it depends on how you count

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  community would push each of us towards our goals. A place where I feel that ... feel and create my own freedom in how I change." Well, somehow I ... lucky. Without all of this, I easily would be writing something very

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018