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• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... the same. MIT has been a place where I felt more like I belonged than I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I ... came and went, we’re now in the middle of summer, and last night I couldn ... here I am. Hello again!  I knew I wanted to write something, but in my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... prompt, I will say that it is naïve to think that you can get away with not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... puddles when I just stomp right through them." In other important news, get ... Medical School and I barely can remember if cyclobutene is flat or not (Sam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my ... . You can’t see it in the photo, but there was a beautiful thick snowfall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  job now i think a lot about how games can be good for people write ... enjoy doing as often as you can i am glad that loving games has brought me to where i am now i hope that i will get to show other people how much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  time. I'm working my first in person internship, a real corporate job ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... , [SCREAM] My internship requires I live in San Francisco. I...was not known

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  as we have had in the past where students can explain anything in their ... where I can snap my fingers and somehow mass hypnotize every administrator ... read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  I was in the right seat. ...Nope. I moved. In case I hadn't caused ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... "LARPing". My elevator company included a guy in a full cat costume (I only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... , and I remember it was nice being able to ask students questions in a ... I wasn't initially interested in!" "Highly recommend trying Mike

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  I can’t even sleep through the night? That night, I lay in bed ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... up when I’m fading out and who turn the little windy thing in my back

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management ... messages, added some people on LinkedIn, said where I was going. I went on ... I can no longer remember everything we did. I'm in Boston again, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in ... Sandusky will live the rest of his life in jail. I can't believe that all ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016