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• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  good. but maybe it would've been better if i spent that time working on ... friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... , wondering what would've happen if i'd chosen that instead. and it'd just be so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  . How I felt in those moments. How I talked myself out of it. Etc. Etc ... that well in 6.145. Sure, I got an A, but how much of that did I really ... events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  myself for some reason. I was so self-conscious of how I would be perceived ... I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... in that region."]Japan[/annotation] and getting upset when I saw my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the ... essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk ... the MIT Bubble. when i heard this, i realized how unaware of what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... shavings in my hair and sawdust on my jeans. I had grand plans for our team ... team captain, in my junior year, as well as coach for our drive team. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes ...   I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my ... when I got here. How much of that is MIT related and how much of that is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  . And I certainly wasn't thinking about how it would all look on a college ... ). What would I like to see: inasmuch as Stanford says their students ... AP tests. I am, however, disturbed that anyone would advocate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... -3,[/annotation] I thought I didn't even need to consider the chance that I would

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  would outweigh anything else. I obviously had no idea how hard my 18 ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  chuckles and blogging. While I'm sure I'll have more Jeremy-isms later in the ... ) "Hey! How's it going! I'm Jeremy. Just FYI." (talking about the Elmo ... are bad." "This is detestable, I would say." (after I suggest

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  this feeling that I would fit in perfectly. You might want to chime up at ... in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... my mind. I wrote them down on a board in my room. They stuck. Shifting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023