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• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  yet, a child who is spoken to twice as much as another child will make ... yourself and putting aside time for yourself is not just a necessary evil. It ... . But actually, there's so much that you can gain from free time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  that it is really only one part of your application, and that in a few ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... couch as a bed and a chair as a desk in the past 2 days is a reliable sign ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  kindergarten, in that "everyone is a potential friend and everything is a friend ... get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of ... -on in the MIT community - so much so that I generally find out about ... yesterday titled, "How to Win a Nobel Prize" - hands down, it was my favorite

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  ) This class is fantastic just in the fact that it's a free for all kind of ... As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... Schiappa is a great professor and he's honestly helped me through so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  my aunt about food in the US and how different it is Jenny> i also ... Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill ... with the MIT Outing Club! In my free time I like to play lots of board

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for ... Sometimes" is at 1 p.m. followed by a Q&A with director Eric Byler and ... like funk, rap or hip hop, this is a CD you should have!)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  some clever trick, but the truth is that I just invested a lot of time ... plenty of interesting stuff going on in a mathematician's head between ... ' (also a Fields Medalist) and John Baez's blogs in particular

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  's gossip. One of the most satisfying feelings in the world is being a ... If you live in Britain, or in a country sufficiently influenced by ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  is a little scary since I don't have much time now. But maybe that just ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a ... is intense this semester (most course 2 peeps I've told give me a crazy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far ... , but I’ve learned to control breakouts.  I wonder how much of life is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  , under a few bridges, which is harrowing in itself, and into a romantic ... . This is how much fun Ling '07 and Bao '07 found all that action. You ... , but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Binary is a French-Belgian art collective, working primarily in type, but ... single-family zoning. This is a big deal!! In this talk, Burhan Azeem ... Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a freshman-- How are you doing in your intro classes? How much sleep are you ... is my compilation of his response, in no particular order: 1. Always

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... as I unpacked my suitcase in August (also, my parents visit me so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  ." At MIT, she is getting a minor in writing, loves poetry, and ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... . Former hotel. Don't know much since I'm not a woman, but seems to house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  , accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among ... girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that ... decided someone important was in the restaurant. We did eat at a relatively

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025