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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  selected to travel to Stanford Splash! Let me know if you're still available ... and high school with me) and Daniel (a chemistry grad student at ... on their kid taking all the classes he or she wants to take (trust me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... tsk to the person who sent me pictures that were 20 MB EACH. dang son ... some photos: -Shop in Kusadasi, Turkey -Ada Land delfinarium near

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... she probably wanted me to answer her questions instead of becoming her ... me to you. I actually have more than one question, but they're roughly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  WHY MIT IS AMAZING (as if you really needed another reason)ME: This ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry ... visit it more often. MY ROOMMATE NEHA: Why are you smashing my chair? ME

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  would try to answer my backlog of questions you've left me. Here goes ... is not taught in high schools (with the rare exceptions), so nearly ... addition to recommending the stuffed cabbage to me, which I'll try when I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you ... song “Cooler than Me”. His song shot to the top 10 charts, but he couldn ... follows: I rode that wave [of “Cooler than Me”] and then the wave crashed

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by ... and felt Maseeh tower over me. If I didn’t like Interphase, then I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  the very last one of those posts has crept up on me. Let's calculate ... study abroad, because they were more beneficial to me at the end of the ... feeling of inadequacy from my mind, but it's very nearly nonexistent at this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  gotta support me for the plot or something. also who knows maybe spiders ... that kept on [annotation note="ok so by us i may mean mostly me ... quality? like, no, absolutely not. was it quantity? yes, enough for me to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  the next part of my life will be comparably memorable. MIT set me on a ... listener. That would be really satisfying. My friend is giving me his old ... that a Course 6 education from MIT has given me is the ability to pick up

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  , there was no possible way for me to pass 6.009 unless I did extremely well ... because this class has been hell for me and I couldn't do it again, I didn ... would do. I managed to nearly calm myself down and came to terms with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  * Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they had not only given me the MIT bug but had also resigned themselves to ... at MIT. I kept hearing little things about MIT that made me realize it

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt ... required me to do a lot of crazy things, including (but not limited to ... 't anywhere near enough to get us close to winning, we all had a ton of fun

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

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  home. I've never been one to struggle with sleep. I could sleep nearly ... with my younger sister, Jennifer, again. She's two years younger than me ... enjoyable for me and significantly less enjoyable for Jen. [image_grid images

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  counseling director at Milton Academy near Boston, where Jones recently spoke ... in 1997, that figure had grown to 39 percent. Now, nearly half of MIT ... realized that that pressure came from me." "I was sending her a message

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... choose your own classes? that was entirely new to me. the whole concept of ... like to be a so-called "front-end engineer"? who knows? not me. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  So, a few weeks ago, Matt gave me an excellent idea for content ... process, which is how you all ended up with me.) So I wrote about the summer ... . Let me let you in a little secret: my summer housing lottery preferences

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  , programs like CPW and Ebony Affair helped me find friends and communities ... office took us to eat breakfast at a local restaurant called Shy Bird near ... exposed me to the fun and supportive culture that existed in the house

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  things it made me feel.   ***   DALI: DISRUPTION AND ... pretty favs.   ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT, NUBIA, AND THE NEAR EAST ... the museum gave me the same overwhelming feeling of walking through a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024