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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... , I can relate less and less and then I know it's time for me to go. And ... where my mom thinks my dimples look ugly #4: Awkwaaaard.../I may or may

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... completed the class. i did it. there are moments where you can feel yourself ... — where i would be right now in my life/my career/my education would be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... , left by accident. I live on the fifth floor in EC, where there's no ... ; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  't get done any time in the near future. It's been something I still can ... It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the ... 't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  can’t make the time to. Once an assignment is turned in, I can’t reflect ... acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like ... get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  Hi everyone. I'm writing this entry from NYC, where I have Internet access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  .  In the summer, I went back to Chicago, where I had been for the summer ... , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew ... , I'll also be doing a little research in MIT's Early Childhood ... that I can set my own hours, which allows me to work around EMT. Even

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  and wouldn’t get into, and in the end I ended up exactly where I was ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... than I did now that I can look back on and think about the different ways

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... and toasty back home in Oregon. I remember my first night walking back ... the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  his neighbor can recognize it in the first few bars of the song), and i ... year, and i've loved them ever since. in october, they came to boston on ... remind me of my SO :) slow dance - slow, cute songs that i can whip out if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I LOVE MUSICALS!!! wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  why I’m coming back home? [...] Can I go in there and say… “I know ... December of 2012, and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014 ... I should go, and I did—completely cold. I went in only knowing that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  conducting work equally in both languages. So, now I can say high ... , after paying, which actually is way easier in Germany, I went downstairs ... word in German for "the Pope" is "Papst" and I kept thinking he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  class. In fact I'm in an Athena cluster right now, supposed to be working ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won ... heat into heating for surrounding buildings. Yay! Where was I? Oh

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  !"]when I was 14.[/annotation] I can stretch my arms wide in the bed and roll ... accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  -quite-ready-for-piracy boat.... ...where we promptly set up camp (so prompt, in fact, that ... flying into our eyes and nearly killing us, and also I fell asleep in the ... DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... . I don't actually know much I can in conscience say about it. Near the ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011