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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  ="aligncenter" width="372"] My growing school of jinbe[/caption]   Note about ... feeling useful. Productive. Only after six years of losing and almost ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Ukraine, and moved to Central Ohio during my freshman year of high school. I ... like Veterans Affairs or Harvard Med School!   What kinds of support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  my high school meals being comprised of microwaved food and Chinese ... to learn how to cook. Most of my time was spent on school ... myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  applying to graduate or professional school, CAPD has services and programs that can help. Approximately 44% of graduates go directly to employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  from the Sloan School of Management. My group discussed everything from ... distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying ... With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  little bit of high school, I was an avid YouTube and Twitch enthusiast. I ... Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  lot during the chaos of the school year, so if you're able to create ... group of friends, I swear! Alternatively, mansplain manipulate man ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly. ------------------------------------------------------- Since you are a member of the MIT Class of 2007, You get to ask a ... much...FREE FOOD. ALL THROUGH THE MONTH OF MARCH How about this: Get a

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and ... small number of high schools that I do each year, I'll often feel a little ... very small number of schools, and that some colleges spend most of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  weeks of IAP was to take as many shifts as I could while a lot of people ... the calendar, I managed to claim 37 hours of shifts over two weeks, working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  one character that a Cantonese friend of mine taught me in high school ... graduation and graduate school. This will help me achieve my goal of using my ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  school advertisements everywhere. It's ironic because a lot of these signs ... it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  beginning of the school year, in some dimensions I’m closer to where I want to ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  of the day is seeing all the people in western business attire standing ... My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of ... start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  mentors and lots of resources to explore many of these areas. In high school ... based on what schools I got into, advice which I also heard from blogs of ... per week. Economics graduate school can also be bad in terms of hours

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020