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• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... definitely surpassed Switzerland for me as the most beautiful place on Earth ... appreciate the view that I had worked so hard for. But I didn't feel the sense

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... one criticizes me for them. No one goes up to me and says, well, the ... received. Yet no amount of mental preparation equipped me for the things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  been my friend for the past thirteen years, came and spent the weekend at ... wouldn't know) and stood up for each other when we needed to. He was the ... office, Ethan and I looked around for him. I felt this anxiety building in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... just eat at the dining hall for free? (This means I don't go to Boston ... feel so guilty for just trying to fulfill the most basic terms of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... Thirteen, for example, there’s the phrase “will be better for me”. Or in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a ... since. We don't really watch these videos for the ASMR aspect, we just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by ... forsake one of my passions for the full pursuit of the other. But

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the ... cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  for the MIT Cross Country and Track teams, it’s a whole different ... come to MIT for his postdoc work. When the grad student said he planned ... arrests and brutality for the sake of his country. Thus far in GEL I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  for one of the seemingly infinite student groups on campus. At Cambridge ... The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the past couple weeks about vacation time in the U.S. versus Europe. The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late ... for a volunteer. Announce that the game will involve the two of you ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  for the summer. I went[annotation note="side note is it just me or is ... ’s go out for ice cream! Let’s go to the mall! On taking opportunities ... seriously thinking about what I want the shape of the rest of my life to look

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  'm grateful for. splash happened the weekend before the last one, like pretty ... on a post about the class for three weeks now, and i'm really hoping to ... acknowledgement statement, as adapted from mit's statement. the land on which i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  bonding time for us :3 For your viewing pleasure, the torture dance from ... 've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the ... part of home, a part of me, of my life for the past 14 years. Each time I was out there on the ice, I skated with a purpose, for the joy and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  typical SAT/ACT requirement for this year, due to the pandemic.']take tests ... our inbox, these delays have been the source of considerable anxiety for ... Regular Action if you would benefit from the additional time (or for any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  feet walk for me, as if the schoolgrounds themselves were showing me the way. I look around and see  wide-eyed students take in the sights and smells for the first time. Shock paints their face because I know they can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... sense of awe. I still feel it every time I look up into the cold night sky ... blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  asks for input from the students on questions so we get in the habit of ... tutorials. The first week I forgot to look up what room it was in, so I just didn't go instead of facing the shame of walking in late. Then I went for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make the most ... more about them, and he offered to hold an entire extra session for the ... and writing lecture notes for Quantum II. On my way out the door, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014