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• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only ... , outlining the pros and cons of some decision. I guess my anxiety gave away my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... of early- and mid-teenagers, those who, even though young, would truly ... coming from areas where there are not enough resources, and they have just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  you a dollar for each body pillow purchase. Hypotheticals and economics ... semester. Here’s how that happened. 1. Mangos and Oranges Last summer, three of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... Chicago, you see, and I was still wearing my uniform--polo shirt and plaid ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  sets and no commitments other than my UROP - which gives me quite a bit of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... 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 / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of ... ongoing housing and homelessness crises. this is an expansive and very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Organizing Fellow and, later on, Data Analyst for my home state of Nevada. I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... . But, as I approached spring break, assignments finally wound down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  now, supposedly halfway between this state of knowing and not knowing. I ... forcing me to complete my thoughts, to fully flesh out and consider every ... middle of junior fall where I admitted that I, too, was terrified. And

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... into the hearts of state schools around the country. What really

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... organized and arranged all these things into a hopefully aesthetic square-ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  dessicated hours between 12 and 5 pm. Recall that the most cherished hallmark ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... Recess for the worship of spherical projectiles and various incarnations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major ... , for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes. I've taken, among other things, a functional and evolutionary

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... would yell out a number, and MIT people would say to which course it ... with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison and Bach cantatas. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006