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• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  be afraid at all. But I am alone, and thinking of [annotation note ... typed away at the back of an empty cafe. "Coffee is the drug I’ve been ... vast number of edits to come… (at least the dark [a section of the book

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  got out of the MITblogs ice cream social at Toscanini's semibohemian ... missed out on getting the best cooking book of all time at Barnes and Noble ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  myself, mostly because my birthday always falls at the start of the school ... into the air, aiming at different patches of sky. Sometimes, a friend ... The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  assignment at the end of term where you have to meet with the corresponding ... waking up early is completely gone. I'll usually glance over at my pile of ... > 3:00pm Getting Serious At this point all the feelings of productivity

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  say, both of these desires were fulfilled. I arrived at MIT around 8 AM ... (CPW activities booklet), 15% discount at the COOP, $20.12 worth of Tech ... behind us, and he offered to have someone give us a tour of 5th East. SWEET

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  "]Course[/annotation] at MIT requires the completion of [annotation note="You can take more ... . 7.18 is a behemoth 30-[annotation note="At MIT, 1 unit=1 hour of in ... .002 was first offered last semester as a sort of intro lab class that first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , there’s a little nerve in the very back of her head and at the tips of her ... transcript at the end of the semester is either a P, or NR. You either pass ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister ... that window, I'd never seen such a massive place. At the entrance of ... friends at MIT, and Rafael, the boy at the end of the hall, who I now know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... 's Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician. It takes a keen look at the stressors ... at Amazon. Some of your responses: Valentina (Bogota, Columbia): How

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  barely edited this blog post at all, as, like the rest of the student body ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly ... animals at the foot of my bed, the Tweety Bird bedsheets –   You ... wild with dreams of making a huge discovery at the lab and becoming super

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  Pot Pie was stunning, sort of like the 100-page rant at the end of Atlas ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  nothing at all.  During my senior year of high school, my dad told me this ... praise you and give you an inflated impression of who you actually are. At ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... evening class, which was very relaxing because at the end of my class day, I ... all of us having played pickleball at least once before (and tennis not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006