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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  better. Well I ate most of my meals either at Alpha Delta Phi or at the ... freshman James Deng 1.5 years ago. Today, that adorable jerk is still my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  With My Life Underclassman. I don’t know how humans managed before, 1 ... granted the convenience of having my friends in the same dorm, or at least ... it possible to have a 1/5th life crisis? Yup. I spent most of the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  ungrounded. You'll see several "turn left or turn right?" choices, where the ... make the most out of today? Is this the "good ending", or is there a ... negative, starting from "maybe it will matter" and ending with "maybe it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  ? A few things: 1. I get to learn about so many things everyday ... job. 3. Hopefully what I’m doing will help kiddos realize that science ... your manners while you're saving the world. Also, I will echo Nance and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  over the counter. Tonight's dinner will feature an ambitious BBQ ... , serve. Stage 1: chopped onions mutiny and leap overboard. Stage 2: an ... bite, and you will have recreated Matt Ritter's unpatentable recipe. On

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... heart sings at the sight of acid-base reactions and descriptions of SN1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  fanart plastered above my desk, or the calligraphy scrolls, or the Inuyasha ... my bed, or the precarious stack of volumes of Monster on my chest of ... those of my current friends, with the exception of maybe five or six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  robot may score zero points, simply because a motor screw was loose or a ... . All while hoping that going through the damage will all be worth it ... major. “Is getting through this courseroad all going to be worth it? Or am

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire ... it’s hot and will burn you if you screw up. The fire isn’t any less ... length of rope for a dynamic prop, or a rigid structure for static props

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that ... people. But a part of me will always wonder if I'm going about this wrong

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... explain why they're useful, even when we're[annotation note="Which will ... wishing that the semester would hurry up and come already, or that I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  work per week, be that in the classroom, in lab, or at home. In practice ... distribution of hours, to give you a sense of how you will be spending your time ... or billions of individual MOSFETs. And in the process, you do actually

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  application process will be recorded as "College Transcript" in our database. If you submit an unofficial college transcript, the information will be ... will be required to submit an official college transcript.
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  interview will be waived, and your application will not be adversely affected ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  this is or will be true for you, too: you only have so much energy ... extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some ... , words - comfort. When I don't have the energy to monitor what I say or do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , or sleeping. (Oh, and I ate a bit too.) The puzzles I worked on ... thrice. It then took us another four hours or so to actually solve the ... printer started malfunctioning, so I got Will '10 to try and fix it for me

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

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  Midnight Madness at this restauarant where if you buy a soda you pretty much

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  disrupted, but I can't look ahead to its resumption: I have no idea what will ... small thing. Here's what I've been up to: 1. Having a job This summer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  before my 1.8-mile commute to the office, and I'm really excited!   ... in the city on the 29th. Some of my friends from MIT will be stopping

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  paper is cut to size to fit the print. Dry mount is waxed-based and will

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010