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• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  : I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts ... I live on a campus. While I was at MIT, I found myself wondering how ... , our residential life culture is a rich component of being a student at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  discusses how he really enjoys the moments where he sees a student is ... learn. He's not there maybe to show how smart he is or how much he knows ... : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  is only a few perilous notches above the set of people who spend ... popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... 't even trust your dentist anymore, you know that your life is pretty much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves ... Adults by Elena Ferrante, which is a translated Italian novel. I'm not sure what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  , not recorded Which are both pretty much okay, since you’re a freshman ... to my 21A.01 “How Culture Works” professor explaining that I would have ... ! Motivation is always a struggle (though hopefully proclaiming this out loud

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  and realized just how much I had changed in a year. For so many months ... , somehow harder than the actual task at hand! A little homebrew necromancy is ... graveyard is a Notes app monstrosity I’ve only recently titled BLOG IDEAS

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  responded with much glee, mostly because I wanted to use a cheesy pun (double ... I think that the three-dimensional you, quirks and all, is a lot more ... right now is how it applied to me when I was finishing up my application

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  describe how bright an object is. Milton could definitely have known that ... ). "Is in the habitable zone" is a very different thing from "habitable," and "habitable" is a very different thing from "inhabited," but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , the unsung hero is background music. I took for granted how large a role ... for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... .  The class is structured as a workshop where the majority of the semester

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  's false humility with a point. My case illustrates how success is always ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... ." Instead, I hear "Yeah this is the best you're gonna get. It's not even a ... don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing. I have so many side

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... extracurricular activities and is working a part-time job to support their family, I ... idea where a student is at in their coming out process (and this may

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  along too much to figure out how to do calculus, which is a real problem ... musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’s a lot to relieve. There is something so calming about drowning out all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... since I got back, I keep noticing just how much B1 feels like home. I ... to Paolo, actually, for the recipe. in a quirk of fate, Paolo is the B1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  Educational Counselor, a recent graduate who is currently enjoying sunny ... admissions committee. A college interview is an experience. Remember that the ... from a transcript or very basic info -- and the interviewer is human too

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  collaborative problem-solving happens is that one person figures out how to solve ... with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You work under a Principal Investigator (PI)—a professor who is the head of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  looked like a whole different person back then. given how much i used to ... was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  .100A has been very helpful (I can actually do psets), and 9.00 is ... community is amazing (stay tuned for a post about that in the next few weeks ... 't really matter how you get there, the only thing that matters is the result

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a ... , and no set program for students to follow. 42 is a physical space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... worked for the last several years, I have a much better appreciation for ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020