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• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since, well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn't even that bad!! Oh man. Oh, man. Three mental breakdowns during office

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She ... This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing ... backgrounds. I mean, before last year, I didn’t know a single thing about marine ... ![/caption] Amber: What was your role(s) in the club last year?  Audrey: I started

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  It's a pretty slow week. Classes ended yesterday, I'll be studying ... week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  .    and just like that, the leaving really, really ended. i was so ... for a long time. i started to, hold on to your hats, like that random ... i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two statements the same? Nope. So since I'm from the 80s, I can tell you that I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  no other. In high school I became interested instead in poetry; not ... Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  'll just end up having to read about what I did this weekend. (In case you ... Last week I had my first exam, shortly to be followed by two others, and I'm happy to say that I suffer from this painful disease that seems

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  running on 19% power. Ohh man. Time for me to submit this thing! So I ended ... High School's SAT code by heart I learned that you can type as much as ... . You know, end it all. It'd be so easy." And I broke down. She said she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  , and really helpful! GUTH IS THE MAN! That was a huge relief to hear. I ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  didn't disappear until I talked about it with one of my high school ... A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old picture. Instead, I found a nearly one year old video that I accidentally

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  there with a free jacket, two free coffee cups, and a free hat. I set ... essentially being forced into upgrading to a 90D.  In the end, I upgraded, but ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  about problems I had to overcome on my high school field hockey team. I ... ’d “never be more than an okay player.” When I crossed the end line after yet ... years of sacrifice and hard work, I was nothing more than a senior in high

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend and ate the blackberries and apple and cheese I brought from home, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  running at the Z-Center today and I thought I grabbed a white running shirt ... of IAP. I guess. I can't think of how to end this entry... well, I can ... Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  ="62251" /] I went digging in my shelf of old notebooks and found my highly ... anything I’ve written before. It’s fun.  5. [read fantasy books] Oh man, yes ... encouraged, to do this), which means I’ll write four short stories by the end

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO John Thain '77). On the bus ride down, I was reading today's New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  .[/annotation]Deep down, I've believed this even since high school, where I wrote that "to ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... job to fix them. The problem with this framing, I think, is that it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  various locations around the world"]GTL[/annotation] in Kazakhstan, I ... year. [annotation note="a correct assumption, as I went around the city ... 't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  the highly dependent but tenuous relationship between man and nature ... When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... special tools beyond reading, writing, and making decisions, i.e. basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014