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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people ... thing. I am not exactly a traditional student, though for a while I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  , although a bad score can hurt -- for example, the average engineering ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  never seem too far but four years can feel like a lifetime. But I digress ... want, so where do I start? It's a privileged and pretentious question ... never been to them that I can think of them this way: means of a better

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I ... , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group ... undergraduates are in a greek organization. And no matter where you go to school, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... they seem like something I really want to sign up for.) It's a weird

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree ... professional background in the Navy. And then from there, I applied to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a ... understanding of how my Ethiopian and American roots played a part. For example, I ... come from. Growing up, and up until recently, I was a serial flip

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  . I’ve learned so much from Hardi and consider him a mentor, but nothing ... mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen ... for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a ... theirs, either. In the September of my sixth grade, I skipped a meal for ... weak. But then came January 2020 where I had a check up with MIT Medical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up ... , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad school. All my classes are remote, and I don’t have campus access, so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  : I wasn’t going to let being in a frat take away from the time I ... dinner in a brownstone across the river, I received another message from ... you rushed us, and i think we will always have a spot for you. And once

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  -- I'd been meaning to blog about the Winter Logs concert for a long time ... not have a post category for "CPW"? (rhetorical question since I'm going ... Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  them online for so many months! I've taken a ton of pics which I'll post ... - although they're mostly from the Registration Room, as that's where I was all ... Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At ... Jewish holiday! Oh, wait, no it doesn't. I don't get those days off from

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants. ... components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my ... that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt ... readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... implement: I don't use pencil for my notes when I can help it. I like the ... page over a period of time. When available, I use white gel pens for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025