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• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  make a home in a place where, at one point, I didn't think I fit. I ... . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a ... to tell people where I’m working right now, because the reactions are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  biology, you can sprinkle in some more bio. If you want to be an engineer ... ’t think I’m into it anymore”. I’ve been fortunate in that I sort of ... .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled ... could! Yayy. (2) I know many of you are at the point in your school year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  met this weekend!! :) (this is why I like to ask you where ya'll are ... them as guest blogs! Don't worry too much about format - I can help you ... *gettingallthepiledupworkdoneafteranentireweekendofhavingtoomuchfun*cough* :P As usual, let any of us know if we can help you in any way to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically ... the clubs I was interested in, I ultimately decided not to join any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where we have interviewers (if you're living in, for example, Crescent ... for similar reasons. But I think Rice can give both schools are run for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could ... situations where they could pass as white.  But I want my kids to grow up in a ... that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  where the pieces were. Before covid hit, I studied in a bookstore where a ... One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the ... -affiliated housing? What are the different rooming options? When will I know where I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here ... for Social Media (CMS.613/21W.751) is—I don’t know where else you could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  excite me, and I can see the direct utility in the material I'm learning ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most gifted person in the world will at some point cross a threshold where it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... : Please keep in mind that these were the things that I found that were ... important. 1. Scholastic This was the most important option in my case. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  its work or its academics, but for moments where I can sit in someone ... three dioramas every single ride. (There were some days where I'd refuse ... . Although I lived in Somerville in fall 2020, it barely felt like I was living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the ... - although they're mostly from the Registration Room, as that's where I was all

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects ... emails were instead titled things like, “Have a present - I am sleeping in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  . I still usually feel like I can follow along, at least, in lectures ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  in the BioInstrumentation lab, where I'm now the proud owner of a $45 ... BIG moment, where Neville comes in and saves the day. If this happens, I ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023