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• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  ' first concert so I was so excited to witness that. Eventually, the lights ... I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of suicidal thoughts, depression, etc. background I started going to concerts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Hi 2021 Applicants! It’s been two weeks since my first post addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  SAGAN MADE MISTAKES???) Neil: "but he was the first [to do highly ... 'm not the first, so I've been able to learn from his mistakes. Carl often ... &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  MIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain ... do or quit moment. I had quit my first hackathon and I wasn't going to ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  my first elementary school, they had to ask the school to not put me in ... I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  order, they were: 1) to finish my first engineering project 2) to make ... I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I ... strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my alarm clock) to find that the power adapter askew enough that my laptop ... trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  handicap. This is the first thing to get over when you come to MIT. A lot of ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  getting, we had one picked out and ready to order. The first day was a huge ... almost 6 weeks. I saw one of the first friends I made when I got to MIT, a ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided to confirm my original assignment at Burton-Conner. The adjustment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  have been going pretty well—my first week flew by since i had frontloaded all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  my dorm room stuff, I'm going to need an intervention. First we moved ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week that we will not be getting this year, we present to you the very first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end ... all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... an exam. This semester, I'm going to experiment with rewriting my notes ... first legit lecture so it's maybe a little oversimplified"]today's lecture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  [annotation note="honestly, i'm definitely going to change this name. please ... the talks happen in my room, which is room 251. the general goal is to talk to lots of different people at MIT about their experiences here, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... ’s say, instead of $80-100. First-come, first-served, and usually they

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  remember Rachel. I was the one who made you promise not to let her fall down the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a ... first (yeah course 16!), but being an AFROTC cadet comes in a close second

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010