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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... . It was a great job, and I'm very glad I had it -- having a job made me ... term. After interviewing me, Morgan asked me to join his lab, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Tralza: Which [Harry Potter]book is your favorite? No! Don't make me choose ... , last year during CPW he told me he liked my (personal) blog and asked me ... 've totally confused me about where you actually live: is it connor 2, 3, or 4

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  class this semester. I took it mostly because it would help me when I take ... representation theory part still eludes me the most. I feel like I will need to ... nice and accommodating, but was sometimes too smart for me to understand

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that ... from MIT and kind of looks like me :) Nora> watched some of Gilmore ... gear for a MITOC ice climbing trip and the trip leader told me to kick

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  like me right now. I've found that it's useful to identify your power hours, the time of day when you work best. For me, that's an hour after I ... me, I'm horrible at estimating the time it takes to do something and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  excitable little girl. My father told me all at once over the phone, and I don’t know if he realized how badly this would hit me. Maybe I didn’t realize ... while, and then her condition continued to get worse. My aunt called me a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  thousand-person hackathon?  My friends have gotten sick of me yapping about ... battling wordpress to get this out so it's a little over for me"]I’m crunched ... memes they made; i think the kids liked me… maybe.[/caption] For some

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... . Naturally, when people starting asking me about how many classes I had to take

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  before the pop-up, I got an email telling me I had been selected to attend ... somebody else to come with me, since I filled out the form last minute (😭 ... water," you'll see exactly what this drink reminded me of. I wish water in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is ... let me discuss the concept here again too for those who may be ... . But it was still unclear to me how I could picture five+ dimensions. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  it's a good way for me to try a new field. Full discloser: I am very ... "]do research as a career,[/annotation]and my lab mentors reassured me that I ... suggested a few beginner-friendly projects to get me started. Fix my sleep

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  , or asking others, all of which naturally gave me different ideas of ... those rare moments for me, I find coding to be really frustrating. After a ... about handling classes and encouraging me to get rest when I was sick

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  . It took me two or three days just to be able to walk normally again ... you that this walk reminded me of the power of perseverance; that, a lot ... that the walk taught me the importance of "knowing your limits" and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  event for me, though, was the fashion show, which featured models wearing ... wanted a natural/basic look for me, so I thought I'd be able to do my own ... me. The designer also had another event that day, so he arrived quite

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  back to Boston, because my time there really made me appreciate how much ... semester are incredibly exciting and weird and pushing me out of my comfort ... class feels as though it was made for me. It's a special subject class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  undergrads, and with an application that took me and my friends about 20 ... . So this year, me, some of my closest friends, and like half of everyone ... convenient and easy to get to for me. 3. Social life This is one that hasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  performance stopped me in my tracks, even though the first two songs were sung ... dropping something, but I haven't done it yet, as some corner of me clings to ... , I emerge renewed, ready to face the day ahead of me. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  glasswork, and wrought iron candlestick holders which remind me of my Baba ... stems from being a visual learner, such that names people tell me don ... every time. “Oh," the instructor said. He might have then reminded me to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to ... you must speak with me for approval first. Please note that given the ... paper was due to get some feedback on my idea. She helped me clean it up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... degradation of the culinary environment around me, I turned to various prominent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021