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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  and a disappointment at first, but it gave me the chance to think about ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  everyone that I was okay, and I tried to get up. I couldn't get up at first ... 'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  . The first question is - what do you want to be then? Well for now, I ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... wanted to write about Early Action and Regular Action (EA and RA) since we

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop. I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is ... equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  touch with you first to figure out what's going on. Basically, it comes ... merit aid (free registration required) On to the questions... FWD wrote ... skills weren't good enough to figure out when Caltech adopted the beaver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered, and housing. While doing MISTI, I’ve taken two personal side trips: 1 to Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  first place, the magic of being reintroduced to it, and the genuine fun ... to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember ... interviewing applicants. It’s a unique and amazing way to stay connected to MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  example, here's an opening to a typical first draft: I am applying to the ... average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... all this, Chris sent me this article to read, and it cleared up my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Admission Office waiting for my first-year seminar to start, when I noticed ... “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... beginning!! We were going to college!! I obsessed over my answers to every

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had ... various ridiculous schemes to get in, since we were sure it would be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... do we do? While I’m sure you’re dying to know all about of our ... , I’m here to introduce you to a few of our MIT and Crosstown cadets

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... based on major (Course 8 was Station 19) and asked to report to Johnson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but ... delicious than a really good chocolate chip cookie.) First step after that was to speed (not literally, Mom - I promise) over to the nearest Au Bon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012