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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  . Bryan: Hey, long time no see. How was Cambridge? Friend: I really liked it ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... tissue engineering applications. Aside from my time in lab, I've been

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  would be an utter failure as a person. I was losing my tenuous grasp of ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  . Mike asked how much time I spend on homework each week, and if it would ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I ... unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  did not realize until I left or just before how much I would miss the ... them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  records in the dead ball era. Same for songs. I swear I remember the lyrics ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... Solitude back in late 2020. I love The New Pornographers because of how ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... -opening experiences have been things I never imagined I could or would do before as an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  of my photos have changed in size. I'm not quite sure how this happened ... I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... 's quite simply one of the best games in the world. Looking the hack over, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  please, bear with me). What I can control is how I handle myself in every ... have been, especially considering how much sleep I had gotten, I felt ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , but also because of what I was doing. I worked in the Laboratory of the ... parameters in the original spiral galaxies to see how the resulting elliptical ... , you might even contemplate how to make a nice triangle in front of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  almost certainly would be sorted into Slytherin...) I'll see you in a week ... watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  had no idea what it actually entailed. I just got in the uber and ended up somewhere in Boston with a ticket. When we sat down I asked someone how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  to see if I would like who I become if I stop putting in the effort to ... [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce ... . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... athletics, gym classes, and other non-academic activities. I was reading in

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  ’s shoulders throw up in the port-a-potty toilets get in the mosh pit I ... expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I saw, pawed through band shirts that I’d usually find only in the back of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We ... &2 apps i've been using a lot Discord - literally would not be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for ... , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... appropriate moment I yelled "LSC!" and got a reply from somewhere in the large ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007