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• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  a Couch to 5K program, my first foray into running in over 5 years, and my first serious effort to win back my old energy. It was a day off ... advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  have to be your first priority. After all, the idea is that you're going ... hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  first, I wanted to write about my experience as a transwoman. But I kept ... wasn’t what I wanted to write about at first [annotation note="it felt ... questions that would actually make them accessible to all applicants. My first

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... 're supposed to wring it out first). I've become more compassionate, more ... I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  interested after the first hour, once I figured out how to turn on the ... [by Xenia Antipova '13] The very first time I heard of Richard ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  below I will give you my first born child) Train Yourself to Study ... My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  instrumental orchestra, consisting of first and second violins, violas, 'cellos, flutes, first and second cornets, clarinet, trombone and double bass,” was ...  reported the first “official” musical space on the MIT campus (then located in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  those days. I overslept, rushed to first period lecture without eating ... last class to my first extracurricular activity of the day, rushed back ... year, my first reaction was to blame the people I found myself surrounded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , she is kind. She is always the first to cheer after a friend's presentation. The first to call during summer break. The first to go in for a hug ... good friend is. I feel like you're always the first to check in, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a cool project that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  magazine to "celebrate the spirit of creation". This was the very first MIT ... screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet ... students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... pset parties***, the awesome people - but if I had to narrow it down to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have ... period than if you were to pursue them separately or elsewhere. But it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if slightly awkward) compliment at Meet The Bloggers, to "Joooliyah" for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  learned back when I was first on my way to MIT, as well as things that I ... There are some big things coming to a close as my summer begins to wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018