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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  a half at MIT, that worked spectacularly. For most of freshman year I ... was also building up the next stage of my life at MIT. That same ... interning at my goal company in Seattle and hanging out with a bunch of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  little too dark, especially in sun-deprived New England. The name of that ... So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8 ... of strangers with music. I was totally mortified, at first, but as ... : namely, taking advantage of every resource at hand. In the meantime, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of ... to look at all components of your application and try to holistically

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  minute lesson and the top 10 players with the most XP at the end of a given ... Duolingo for that given week. At first I was rationally apprehensive of ... , coincidentally at the bottom of Diamond League, and with a week between the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  ="ok so part of it may have been because i was jumping for three hours at my ... remember the pain of dragging myself along the wall at one point, and someone ... arm in braces floating constantly at the back of my mind; I was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... server. the 1st meet was at the new balance track, which is a super fancy ... girls there are so sweet and good at cooking, so I got to eat a lot of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  newness wore off faster and faster, until by the end of the first week of ... studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... talk about basically anything relating to dorm life at MIT. I'm one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I ... at MIT is a great equalizer. If you fall under either of the categories ... a major at the end of freshman year, continue to take classes outside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New ... feelings of guilt it induced, but god. every time I looked at Flora, I felt ... every couple of hours, or however often I looked at my mom's face. making

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... free iPad and Apple Pencil in late August, as part of a new loaner ... "] whoosh dramatics[/caption] At the risk of sounding like an absolute nerd

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket ... legs The former meant bounding out of bed at the unacceptable hour of 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  History at Indiana University, Editor of the Journal of American History ... memorials at the bombing site. This talk was one of 13 of The Resilient City ... Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the School of Architecture at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... see the opportunities outside of a small town. I wanted a new

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025