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• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  shoulders, but I still wanted to get a fourth recommendation from someone for those schools where a fourth letter was allowed. I had a professor in ... summer, I had no idea where I wanted to apply. There was a vague desire to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... for a little bit. Watch me eat my words in a few months time. I love ... . Like, I can enjoy it, but I do it more for the end than the means. Given

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  putting in roughly 40 hours of work a week for the past two weeks. And I ... , something I know the entire house will benefit from for many years to come. In ... So it's been almost exactly a week since I last put together a blog

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT ... did a blog for them (I've been reading your blogs for quite a while) I ... said: i don't really know how to say this but i've been trying to find a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too ... listen to me ramble on every day at lunch. I'd had Dr. V as a teacher for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  from composing for 21m.301 and from arranging for ohms, is that i’m a ... for a chunk of metal to perform almost any computation you can think of ... , which i appreciated a lot. the final project for this class is completely

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  -college). I can deconstruct any bowl of ramen for you, and make a pretty nice ... write a short little blurb for them last year, and I was more than happy ... . Man, what a personal question to answer just so I can fill out the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  few things that make the fall season such a significant time of year for ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... ways. I always find a sense of coziness whenever I'm enjoying something

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  ; for a lot of them I just never heard back again. It seemed even more ... Without a sense of purpose I’ve spent all this time For no reason MIT has an ... unquestioningly for a long time that I was suited, maybe even somewhat obligated, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... magazine site that I visit daily called "The Root". The article was a feature ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can ... am done with all my work for the semester if I can be reading about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  attempt to learn how to adult a little more, and as a result, I can now ... stovetops, where they ranged from gyozas to peach bruschetta. I appreciated ... . For a full summer, I felt like an employee, who could let go of work

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  for the metaphor, life isn’t exactly analogous to a marathon, where all ... Earlier this semester, I met with Junot Diaz, [annotation note="a ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  -subsidized [annotation note="a service where you can rent bikes for short periods of time"]BlueBike[/annotation] subscription, I could quickly bike to campus, or to Central square, where a lot ... . As goes the stereotype for New Yorkers, I love walking, and from our

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  Stealing a page from Melis's book, check out this awesome article ... Lance Armstrong -- came to MIT seeking an outlet for his passion. ''I didn't know if there was a wind tunnel at MIT, but if there was, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  Covid and was already taking some time off for squash twice a week so I ... had a relaxing time. But then I saw an email for a really cool class ... if I keep at it for a few eons, I'll start getting the hang of it. In

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... yeeted that bag into the freezer for like a week, and by the time I ... 's great for a quick boost. Hopefully the second list can pass the first one

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... . Not that I didn’t enjoy it - high school was the place where I a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022