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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... beautiful," it was exactly his kind of place, too. Full of a very wholesome ... strange. Toward the end of his visit, she'd asked, "What are you supposed to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... attracted the attention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  applying to graduate school, and I want a lot of independence. I believe at ... This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... of some beautiful ideas, I settled into my life at MIT and now have a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore ... out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... declared Course 2! Woot! But enough about school... after all it is summer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first ... summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it ... savings of about $15 and a tree or two that I achieved by using a refillable

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past ... townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total ... luxurious apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, two of those friends the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  I've been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  in some other corners of this school. But that's what I would say if I ... McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders ... dinners six nights a week, as well as plenty of snacks. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the 44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  , some of my old journals (if I could tell my high-school self one thing ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on ... -Cyberespionage -Deaths of Mathematicians -Cetacean Mechanics Stuff You Haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... moosh made of it now blah. (Editor's note: my spell-checker just insisted ... into a study break of dubious productivity. And I... Gave people

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  track in American schools. I had learned some basic biology in 6th grade ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  of the process instead. Most of the comments/questions I received last ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it ... one piece of your folder that will cause us to admit or not admit you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  of school) and this is what it looks like: >> Essay due Tuesday ... After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is ... you, and then they give you all sorts of free stuff as they prepare you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  sort of leadership position. (Another note: Medical schools have space ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  blood of the Institute. Without the people, this school would just be four ... So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006