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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... against a window. I predicted with my students when decisions would be

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  idea what people do in most majors (and where I would fit in), and a ... extroverted, I hope we can get along. Boy, did I underestimate how well we would ... proof based mechanics class. Each week, I would spend 5 hours in class and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good grade, because I spent 100 hours on this project." or "I slept in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am, blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... 's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... , which I participated in during high school. Then my dad was like, "I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  for the next 4 years? How much do I want to learn? What would I give up ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I ... one towing. It was little enough that I decided I would try to bring my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... in-person or remote. I knew that I could stay at WILG if I interned in Cambridge, but I'd have to search for housing in San Francisco. Also, I knew

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... - they're all excellent and I would highly recommend trying literally any

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public ... subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . how do you know when to pause working? with problem sets, i'd stop in ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... .033, we finished 6.036 grading in four hours, and i fit everything in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  thought I would never apply to MIT because I thought I wouldn’t “fit in” to ... chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... about that. To be willing to risk and to explore. I'm sorry in a way that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... happening in the background so I was slightly losing my mind. It was very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  reflection that I was, in fact, fairly curious as to how I actually spend my ... or aggressively annoyed in this class than I would like to. When Mihir ... holy of days), Leo and Athena were sitting in ML. I don’t remember all

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023