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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  thermos) and what to leave behind (record player, books, a little cactus I ... to interact with it in a big way, I wouldn’t have come to MIT. I would ... rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... of “American” when I’ve also grown up in a [annotation note="Look up a ... !?!” Sure, once upon a time I had hobbies. In elementary school, I summed up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  attempt at a story occurred in grade four. I wrote an 84-paged tale titled ... in my cluelessness. I had no idea I was such a terrible writer, and ... , something flew in. It was a man, bloody-faced and bound in ropes. I wasn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  before) and gave Megan a call at around 5:15 AM. Much of what Megan says ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... that night. I was actually almost asleep when I recieved a mysterious

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the ... myself against a table. I packed my things. It's not as if I could stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• 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…

  

  'm forgetting, but these should get you started. Anyone know where I can get a ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the

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

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... should start therapy. Therapy was hard. I had such a hard time working ... in my life would hold this against me. I missed a month of school

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

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the ... the other. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the scattered nature of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  print out my badge before Friday. Career Fair runs from 10-4pm. I check ... -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch ... realize I don't know what I want to do in life. Great. So I start filling

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... some of you think I just described you perfectly. If so, you should

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  on my bs and set the bar high for what I should aspire to be- the ones ... lists in a packed lecture hall. But, as I sit here, I realize how lucky I ... [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  get a lot more done over spring break in all my classes. Consequently, I ... a pretty cool place to hang out. Especially in february. What you ... ? Well, I'm not doing this fabulous topic justice in the least. I brought

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  the sail in and—ran into problems. See, before, whenever I’d done tack ... Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... watching, you also may remember that I got asked to prom. What??) If you

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to ... will. Then I just print out a paper copy to hand in while the file is ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... ), but I should mention this option just in case. Most grads (I think) of ... I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... written something), but I did contribute a lot in that I handled all the ... she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  : What can I say? There are few topics as important as this. Meanwhile, in ... . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... , tools, and applications in bioengineering and a survey of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  are in a dark room B: and your eyesight sucks B: and oh god A: what B: i ... : what A: yeah and i stopped myself from saying that B: what A: i stopped myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT ... year as an EMT in Israel before his freshman year. This gave him a lot of ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  imagine that I mix these two up quite a lot. Throw in de/di, se/si, and so ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008