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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  how my face was doing. My mother called to tell me to be more alert (I ... week about how a rampant field of grass beat me at the knee. (I'm just ... I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... ) What I was expecting: Chris, what is the derivative of x^2? How about x^3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  struggle is worth it. This is how I felt during the entirety of November and ... easier than listening to people who barely know me prattle on about how I ... Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  have been, especially considering how much sleep I had gotten, I felt ... . Probably like how macaroni and cheese would be if it were made by an ... wheels of Bad Timing. Looking ahead, I knew next week that I would have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why ... would not expect at MIT. I know these are poor excuses for not studying ... not hate yourself after doing it. (I don't care how much satisfaction

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... thought that a lot of people would say “reading,” or because I thought only ... So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  . That's how I learned the font was called Replay. [caption id ... is too small to tell. As always, I don't know how to conclude, so this ... thinking: technically, I should be calling them typefaces. First off, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... tremendously surprised I was at how natural the conversation felt. I told him ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  sometimes you wonder how things would've gone if you didn't end up being ... . I included these thoughts because I thought players would relate to ... first → "Oof, I don't think I can come" → Do some TA work Go to sleep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  rfong style, I celebrated by buying a 14oz teapot. Just kidding. In even ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages. Two excuses, actually. Yes, I took my last final over a week ago, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  precisely for this reason: long trips between the two cities I would call home ... life would look like now had I stayed at MIT for graduate school. I am a ... for the duration of my time as a student. I would complete a year and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  time to think about the past year and how i'm now twenty-one and what ... random set of clues, but something connects them together. i don't think ... white shapes. please remember what it looks like very closely, and how it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  !), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try ... shouted, "Wait, where does my foot go next? Wait how am I supposed to put my ... The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  often think things like... How would I want to spend time with my best ... glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally ... in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... out how to condense your life into 100 words or less), I'm assuming you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail ... applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  as I had wished I would. Either way, it feels terrible. Yeah, it ... I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of March; I feel like classes started really ramping up, everything started

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... responses to the question "How many hours did you spend per week?" I tend to ... how manic I am) Writing more blogs (??? hrs/week) ...which seems like

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... . "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full ... Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012