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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  major, a physics major (that's me), a mechanical engineer, a premed (I ... semester for me). Anyways, that's why I'm back. Also, I really like poems ... class discussion. It usually takes me about 20 minutes to digest the poem

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn ... to me, "Aren't you going to answer it? That looks like a Boston area code." Me: "Mom, that's not a Boston area code." (Phone continues to

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... having people older and more experienced than me to show me the ropes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... latest in this series, from Pat, who wrote me earlier this week: Hello ... computing. You might have seen me on MIT's home page earlier talking about my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  windows. The snow packed onto the balcony taller than me before we cleared ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my ... brothers on how they're doing and what they're up to. That got me thinking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning ... ,051 miles away. I think if you were to ask me point blank, "Where is home?" I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching the man across from me. He has a beard like Edward Abbey's and a red ... me right now for making me feel human again. I wasn't expecting it to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a ... of me examining rocks while wearing a hard hat over my frizzy hair like some sort of Magic School Bus episode, let me assure you that the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I'm working with ... , meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... student named Ilana, was all too happy to help me find Eduardo - a post

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  MIT interview was with an elderly alum, known to me as Mr. Neighbours ... me. Nevertheless, he was nice if not particularly dynamic. He entered ... helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... . a couple moments later, Jett hands me the cube and asks if i know what

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’t want me to succeed, no matter what platitudes might escape their lips ... , because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic ... even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  in NV has given me a newfound appreciation for the silly, donut ... questionably tinted couches of Loop and lolling about until someone joined me in ... themselves right next to me. It was one of my favorite things, where, after a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away ... weeks if they left Canada to drive me to Boston. Fact 3: the school ... could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  interesting songs, at least to me, is who’s crazy/my psychopharmacologist and i ... humorous, but this verse does strike me. counseling is weird, in some sense ... comforting, but sometimes it does weird me out. these past few weeks a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  me thinking. I've come to this realization, over the past six weeks or ... good thing if what it creates for me is happiness. It does not need to be ... because it's what lets me keep living and doing everything else. I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  think that's something that really says a lot about me. i've questioned a ... i've been learning was what would eventually lead me to my downfall. i ... math, appreciating the thoughts and perspectives its given to me. i am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... people around me and the world in general” and “what should I be taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  school visited me. I boarded a plane to New York, spent a day interviewing ... the semester, it occurred to me that I owe a lot to ancient Greece, to ... semester. Instead, I am reading a 2007 book2 that tells me to distrust

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling powers]: Yes. Lisa: REALLY? Me: Yes. Lisa: Woah! The second time someone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011