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• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  reveal some of the things I know for sure I will be blogging soon, as a ... I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... they do at some point for everyone), I had a home and second family to ... Stress: I can’t not mention this one. Even if you are taking a light load

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  that I'm back from New Jersey, I can say it was a much-needed break to ... the summer), but I'm not sure where I could find it... Sean said: So..can ... going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  us for dinner as well. If you're curious, you can hear from Helen '12 ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... about that. To be willing to risk and to explore. I'm sorry in a way that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where ... exception. I have professors who I would take a bullet for, they are so good ... was really exciting. my professor for the early universe is a legend and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students ... , particularly where I live... I have not known boredom since moving here. There

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  truly a foreigner. For one thing, I’ve been to those places so many times ... kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... from a thousand miles away. Being so far away makes me feel a little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  'glottal stop' [h] hair - voiceless There are other places where you can ... be quite common in other languages). I recommend you take a look at ... immediately followed by a fricative: [tʃ] change [dʒ] joy We can now go back

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... . As a little present I've built a handy-dandy spreadsheet for you to ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... Established Welding Mentor, so I shadowed her for a few sessions before running

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation ... tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to ... area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a ... a website called partiful: think facebook events for parties. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... passed the swim class but I can't really do anything except a terrible ... , on a regular basis (so I'm leaning away from a UROP, but if someone

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  characters of "2A-CIR"? Well, for one thing, as far as I can tell, I'm the only ... , or 23. I know. (Also, for the record, I wrote that entire list from ... sure it's up to scratch. I was invited to attend a meeting for the ABET

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of ... hours scripting and rehearsing a dry run presentation for 6.UAT (i ... the weather finally getting better, I rallied my hall for a picnic

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... summer after senior year. I had held my UROP for a year, this is true; and ... ’s true that I learned a lot from these experiences. But it feels that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  commentary from an experiment like this. In a subsequent blogpost, I’ll be ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  , I got to go to a professor’s house for a research group party the day ... Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  , as I remember them: "You can take almost anything away from a man. His ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... -story roofdeck. There's a kite hanging from the ceiling and a piano anyone can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He ... small town where I had an hour layover. I started walking to a café but ... in.  A woman asked me the typical questions — where are you from, how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023