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• 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  b.s. or exercises in covering your tracks after messing up. But then I could see, in my own projects and in my classmates’, how the constraints ... first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake ... [/annotation] and also confused about how it would work logistically. Memes ensued ... excited for my friends, but didn't think I would personally get one. Then, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... finals. As a lifelong strong-test-taker, I thought I would prefer final ... 13) I am in Seattle, in my parents' house, and more specifically in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... the past few days, I've been wondering about what I would blog about today, asking myself what I would have wanted to hear last year. I'm not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  . Alvin wrote, "I am doing my SATs in june 3,2006, how can also do SAT ... sort of review, but I'm still quite iffy on how I'll do...so would a poor ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what ... themselves across.”  This isn’t how I imagined coming out would turn out, but ... . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... rhetorical question-response would be: “Isn’t that like asking how I would save ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... moment when I realized she would not speak, that she would sit there and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019