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• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  one of the chosen 5? Does anyone know where I can get a used Viper ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so ... about admissions and instead transform into a cozy place where we can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students, faculty, and staff can go hang out and create beautiful glassware and ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with ... you, far beyond where you currently stand. For the longest time I ... you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  with the shop guys in Pappalardo (where we build out 2.007 robots.) I ... challenge was to come up with a team name, we decided on “I Can’t Believe I ... ://getfit.mit.edu/) has a function where you can enter your minutes and see other teams

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... really the glamorous part of the job, you know? The ten foot pool. Where I ... nonetheless. Today, for example, in one hour alone I had to handle one accident

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  were points in the semester where I was just like “lol class is so not ... where I get excited about stuff, and then distracted, and then ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... , in my graduation speech, with strangers I met at conferences. After I ... -wrapped dates, while various professors trickled in; I recognized a Medievalist, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past ... , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  whole other kind of culture shock, where I was in most settings the ... . I found myself in a lot of situations where I had to take a deep ... the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check-in ... crashing down… right in the lobby, making the scene I had so dreaded. It was

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  . I hate the disparities in its student population. I hate the way I can ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  pursue paths where my best qualities don’t get a chance to shine. I can ... lean into the activities where I can naturally succeed. Cross-posted on ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  realization recently that I think I'm boring. I'm not entirely sure where I sit ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  -coded chunks than i can name, i feel as if i’ve gained very little. the ... Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... one major, so i should choose whichever path i’m more interested in. 2

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... infrastructure, because I can’t imagine biking everywhere in Boston or Tucson ... subway long-term, as I’ve never lived in a city where subways are the main

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I ... rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... shouldn’t I talk really loudly in the deep lounge at 2am” and “why shouldn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008