Search

Search Results

• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  choosing between 8.022 and 8.02. so maybe i should drop 8.022 and work on blogs instead  # I took this class called 8.022, which is electricity and magnetism with vector calculus and things. I really like it. I am drowning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game ... 2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... her parents rather than herself, hiding all signs of struggle, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten ... designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution". It's rated 4.6 on Amazon, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus. Never before have I experienced such intense feelings of belonging and joy

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... I'm really not that intelligent, and that there are many others who

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  .[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to ... and a hug and have her favorite chocolate chip pancakes ready. The day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... recruit frosh"]Frat rush[/annotation] is happening as I write this, and one ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... has some administrative buildings, MIT medical, and Sloan. (Here, east ... has the name East Campus.) Then there’s north campus and northwest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr and finally found its way into our corner

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015