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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes ... was one week where I had three in-depth, multiple

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... is home. I wanted to come to the MIT fly-in program because I wanted to ... found out about this MIT Fly-In, I was immediately interested. I really

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  into some situations where my French concentration came in handy. The ... heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... Her.  He said we can't live without art.  In October, Masaaki Kanai ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... pretty much anything you can imagine because I really enjoy, um, numbering ... on fire on the way there and I got in a car with a stranger just so I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis. I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  where I am going with my classes….or my life. So this makes me think ... place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... combination of yuck yuck and gross," and I don't know that I can really improve ... campsite (with outdoor showers!), I spent as much in one day in Venice as I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in ... write about China, where I've spent the last two summers and last two IAPs and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  papers, e.g. the one where I suggested we can eat ducks and spiders because ... around. If I can. In the meantime, I can at least tell interested friends ... final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... time in Maine (when I can’t easily classify things as “good” or “bad”, I

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... given where I'm from, I probably should be. So anyone who's daring enough to teach an old dog a new trick, I'm sure I can teach you my

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... . Every movement I made- and didn't make- was laced with doubt: I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Though I haven't had internet for the past week, there has still been ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the ... missed. I can't explain it in words, but I feel my self echo back an image ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to ... university where you would like to study, I say "Go ahead." I'm a fan of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I know where I am now is where I want to be. So as I sit in my ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and then start my own software company where I developed video games. At some

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007