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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines ... . After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 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

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... each one was, I can only offer you this news, which has me excited beyond ... It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the ... every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I ... 's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills ... group processes…The description for a good leader can go on and on, but in ... Activities, etc in which students can become involved. http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021