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• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  and feeling a sense of closure to the '10 cycle. Congrats to all the ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  lab that I didn't need to graduate, who TAed a robotics class ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to ... does a lot of government work, it's got a quasi-academic feel to it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  , commas, and empty roads, and has always wanted to grow up to become a penguin Kidist A. ’22 of Georgia (the state), who likes to cite tweets by ... . In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share ... this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  lead to a collision. Bathroom exits have stop signs too. If you are traveling with a group, do not, under any circumstances, use all four lanes to ... tickets whenever you stop to use a water fountain. There is no carpool

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to ... didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... !” - Langston Hughes. Still Here After a while, I came to realize two things about

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... when people are trying to pick colleges, and I want to expand on that a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... spent months working on :) On Class Council, we tend to have a signature

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by ... began disappearing. I needed a job. I needed something to do at MIT that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students ... develop at MIT, Kellen recruits students to take over these accounts for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... couple months, I've said a lot of hopefully-temporary goodbyes to a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... whether you're new to HDM or returning, I've got a fun little Internet thing ... alethiometer app to give people the experience of carrying around a golden

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  would’ve, could’ve, should’ve a newly minted senior's freshman year regrets

  

  year away. Suffice to say, I've been thinking a lot about how I want to ... figured I'd list out a few of my freshman year regrets, not to beat myself ... confined to it. Besides, Boston really is a beautiful city, and being able to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 2, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  came, it was gone, and I was left to plod my way through a weird liminal ... resolution to stay on top of everything. I remember being a freshman this time ... as close to the ground as possible, or that I’m a mid-day showerer (not

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Friday are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student ... line outside the gallery doors for a second chance to participate in this ... following May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  . While I missed the ceremonies, I did make a point of going to the informal lectures. The informal lectures are when you get a chance to actually hear the reasoning behind all of this research. Consider it a "Why" to the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008