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• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  because how would I ever make friends in college if I didn’t meet people ... ’t possible for me. I thought I was absolutely screwed: I would never fit in at ... filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  nervous about how the semester would go. Yes, I heard it wasn't the end of ... ."]she wanted to retire.[/annotation] I would start taking notes early on in the ... to see how it goes in the future. Lastly, I watched Dororo, which I got

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  've said, like I would have been) in not answering the "completely optional ... process, so I feel I should remind folks that P(big envelope in December ... very informal research, etc.) because I thought it would be anticlimactic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... school (once my #1 choice) where I would've been miserable, had I decided

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... creative concepts. how do i rediscover my relationship with art—one in which ... all, really. i would fill the empty seconds in my day with audiobooks

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the junk yard and the trash and in school recycling bins. But he never got ... Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... then the whole scene would freeze except for him? Yea, I experienced that

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50 ... and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... to have research experience. I have about two years of experience in ... very hard in my bio classes. Be flexible with your path. Yeah, I know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I ... based on the circumstances of the day, I find comfort in knowing that ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is that i decided this would be good for me. i am taking four math classes

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . There are so many resources here that I would have to fight for if I had ... opinions; I'm just trying to plant a little seed of doubt in the minds of ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course ... moment one day... I got one song (probably "The Power of Love") stuck in my head, then another Huey song stuck in my head, and before I knew it, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012