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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  I applied to be a student partner at several VC firms in the area ... the startups but more importantly what the judges said to each other ... very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but ... miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at ... get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research ... and it became a game of "So what do you love the least?", like asking to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... easiest costumes to pull off: ninja. Krystal’s Guide to Being a Ninja in 10

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza ... ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  comes to the rules of society (or subsets thereof), I am often (at best) a ... paper. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s to be expected. Most social circles ... relationship with is more likely to become a part of your social circle if they

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  (6-4 wasn’t around yet), and AI wasn’t much more than a buzzword to me ... teaching; true to form, every pset was in the form of a superhero comic ... .033 taught me to value it as a tool from which all material properties would

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... reason enough. it is weird to say that even sadness is a rich feeling.    i am still a proponent of choosing to feel happy. it helps me deal

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... I can’t bring my laptop or a book to bed unless I want it to fall out ... ’ve heard can help a person fall asleep faster. Second, since I sleep next to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  ?-Custom fish tank/mini fridge/plasma screen a possibility? Ah, so it's important ... have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an ... college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... , about a month after coming to MIT, my friend Hanna '10 and I started a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young ... , whenever I write a paper and put it out to the world. I will be judged ... will not stop"]set a calendar event for August 5th[/annotation] to remove

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  discuss a broad, general aspect of admissions that is relevant to each ... schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a ... Cambridge MA. It's a 10 minute walk across the bridge to Boston, and many of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I ... , the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or ... be a nightmare. If you’re a senior, and you really want to get your ... I could have been spending playing a board game with my mom, going to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to ... to what look to be record highs.  Last week, President Reif sent a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student ... support will allow a lot more of the stores to stay open. Harvard

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... both asked a version of: When/why/how did you switch to course 9? How is ... intelligence.. etc. I switched from course 5 (Chemistry) to course 9 by getting a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... carrying dirty laundry. I couldn’t run off to Boston at a moment's notice. I ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017