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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  just say that succeeding in your senior year is doable. But it's a ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Course 21W: Writing and Humanistic Studies.* *What in the world is a writing UROP, Jess? “What in the world is a writing UROP?” you ask.* *Way ... unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a ... around? Is MIT really like this caricature? Well... yeah, sort of. It's a ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... affirmative decision tomorrow. Please fight those thoughts. A decision is not a ... or experiences. A decision is not a culminating experience or the end

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  ! 1. It is not a test. I'll tell you how much we ECs know about you as ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  how much you are doing. there is usually a lot to do but there are ways ... that CJ and other bloggers have blogged about in the past. It is a ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  in an AP class is better than an A in a normal class.” It shows that ... . Don't flat out say X event changed me in Y way. Show how it changed you. Describe the manifestations of the impact, not the impact itself. This is a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life-changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things that make me happy. If you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  , in fact, is my definition of magic – competence so much more advanced ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  love about MIT lab classes is the free lab goggles. Today we had a choice ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... eclipse is observed by a big drop in intensity in the light curve readings ... very little experience but with a lot of passion. Shaye is currently in

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

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  that my unavailability is not discouraging. Instead of being in a ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed ... professor of astronomy. In between, I spent a couple of years as a postdoc

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  is, an engineer without interests in the wider world, working a cushy ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... some lifted-from-the-admissions-brochure sentence about how MIT has a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot ... since MIT is known to be a tough school, and whether looking back, I wish ... . MIT forced me to figure out, early in my undergrad career, how I should

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how ... clearly not a wise decision. And how the many incredible events at MIT all ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’s probably okay. The cool thing is that I had never fenced a day in my life ... ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  little kids? Lemme tell you a lil' secret: They're just as much fun as ... Mobile." The bike looks kinda sloppy, but underneath all the blue is a large oak ... during the race. The creativity of all the bikes had a lot to do with how

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... down and watch more Hermitcraft after this, so yeah. This is pretty much ... . My brain is filled with too much snot right now to remember what we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  55, an artists' collective in Copenhagen, is a modern day Conestoga ... " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010