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• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... -nighters in a row. I imagined what it would be like to live through stereotyped ... would have in college. I think most people are. But going further than

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  an around the world experience, but in the end, I just couldn’t stay ... Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  the seats would be in an obstructed view area, we all looked at each ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt ... A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... get as many piercings as I wanted once I went to college. All I would

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  in on 6.006 I dropped 6.006 to Listener mid semester but continued ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class ... House']4W[/annotation] people. I got like two tossups in the entire

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... wasn't entirely sure about how i would enjoy living there. MacGregor has ... 's mattress from her room in EC, but when i saw how decrepit it was, i decided

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  back in time, I would high five myself, then say "don't wear your big ... , shimmying through little alleyways I would never have thought to enter in ... primer on how to pray…Lucy said we pray in our heart, so I did.” “After

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... comfortable for me? (This means I spend most of my time in my room.) Why would I ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... how to stab anyone, and I wonder what richness that knowledge would add ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can't begin to tell you how that feels, after all this time. Maybe I'll have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... actually a lot of fun since, for one, I was interested in my thesis, and also

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... had been totally fine. But I couldn’t help but worry. Perhaps in my mind ... can give. Here we are, in this universe where I chose MIT. I love MIT in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... was scheduled to arrive Monday, and while I knew I would miss my ... productive all semester -- and perhaps ever. How na√Øve. I was able to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in ... coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... think it's the oddest thing. Some of my friends in materials and I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a ... . For example, I would probably reject anyone who asked me out if they ... most everything I do. Taking an example from when I was younger, in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022