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• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  ways it felt like my life was paused. (I'm sure lots of y'all can relate ... always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... beginnings of deep friendships in the East Campus courtyard. I felt like a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  study abroad opportunities as I can! The Plaza de España in Sevilla This ... about the program for two main reasons. First, I took AP Spanish in high ... taught entirely in Spanish*. But, that was three years ago, and I’ve never

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i could sit in front of the piano, know where all the keys were ... . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... ; let me give some more legitimate examples: i played piano briefly in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  myself, but relative to my peers. I begin to imagine where I fall in the ... yes, I'm still doing really well for where I'm at. But I can't help but ... . Not only am I insecure about where I am in my major, but I'm jealous and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... Wonderfriends in Walker. Go go gadget radio! Hanna and I play obscure music with ... admissions office, just because I can. (Hi, Nance.) 2 PM - 18.03 lecture. 3

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  at all. I can only work in a field directly related to my major. For ... . Plus, I had to pay $620 in summer tuition. After graduation, we can then ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  waving my hands around in the air. But from my point of view, I'm moving ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I ... objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  ’m finally back in a place where I need scarves and hats, and now I can make ... plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  can. In the moments where I am not hit by anxiety, I am trying my best ... live with it. In the meantime, all I can do is hold on to the people that ... playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I ... things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  The 2014 Engineers were the winningest (real word!) MIT football team ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... where I went into my old room and found it completely empty." "Huh. Maybe ... placing it in the drying rack, I head back upstairs and grab my laptop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , when I’m sitting in the solar car, I can’t see behind me. There is no ... fiction,’ I can assure you it is not :) Background Info (Not really a story ... ,[/annotation] Mcpherson, KS, Dodge City, KS, [annotation note="Nimby, I don't think we're in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... crisis. Literally. I know it's only freshmen fall, but I can't help but ... , with a minor in biomedical engineering. Then, that changed when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I ... an unsuspecting victim in STS.001. But I the single most memorable moment this video that I watched, oh, I guess about five years ago today in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  whoever was being Tim the Beaver in the picture I took during the chaotic ... smiling if he tried!). In true presidential fashion, I even got to take a ... either side of me, so I had to kind of guess where people were while trying

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008