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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  yellow.) I read this in the middle of my graduate school apps, a time where ... important to me? I feel this very strongly in this COVID semester, where it ... confident in what I want out of life? I don’t know. But all I can do is keep

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... classically mortifying high-school-cafeteria-where-on-earth-do-I-sit dilemma

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in ... *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... Facebook in like, the last month, there's this thing going on where you write

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ="IAP = Independent Activities Period. In January, MIT has a brief J-term where you can ... sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... can explain why. I have this very specific picture in my mind. I ... groups are suddenly smaller. It wouldn’t be like MIT, where I live in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  in September and resume my life as an MIT student. Until then, I can ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... off each other, and I'm excited to see where this goes. I'm also hyped ... about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... Minnville, where I've lived almost my whole life, and spent a frenzied week saying ... was leaving. I'm in love with Oregon, and I'm obsessed with my family

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

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  bodybuilding buddies at the gym next to where I lived, I found time to contribute ... working in Mexico City, I got to go home for three weeks, the longest ... . Being at MIT is like living in a bubble, but it is definitely a bubble I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  where I started out. You can see a playlist I made based off of it here ... weird soft phase I had you can see in this playlist Memorable albums ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... excellent contingency plan. in my sophomore fall semester, I haphazardly ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... -wife’s fridge?  There is no version of my brain where I can neatly chop off the ... directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ended. the classroom was in 34-101, and my next thing was in 34-501, so i ... some lunch, and sneak in some stardew valley before my next class. have i ... because during my 6.UAT recitation the next day, in an activity where we had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022