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• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my ... really had no intention of ever being Jewish while I during my time at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the 6.033 design project preliminary report so nisha doesn't yell at me, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  powerless and beaten down has colored my perception of a school I used to ... For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs ... among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... one year left. I found out I have ADHD? But I guess a lot of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT ... of 2005. First of all, I’m running the Boston Marathon in April! I ... context of a human rights-related field, doing mostly national-level and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  . During the school year, the two main commitments of the job are writing ... Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  the streets of Beacon Hill was nice. During the school year, Winnie and ... ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  past spring? Well, we got kicked out of school, I'm not sure how social I ... , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note="No."]Was the duration of my hiatus intentional?[/annotation] The world may never

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the top of their class during high school can slip so far into academic ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  School Math teacher, who is a part of the NPL and also started a mystery ... . Coming out of high school, I found this really strange and a weird ... This is my friend Kat '10, and she's one of my very favorite people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  along the lines of that I was a high school kid when I first heard of pix2 ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  nothing like senior year of high school. There’s nothing like working on ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  somehow isn't broken. The atmosphere was insane as a bevy of schools ... experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe-inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... aurora borealis. Of course, I don't have any pictures of these things ... exciting pictures of an apple farm. Saturday morning was OUT OF CONTROL

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... to pursue both skating and school — all of it flashed by in an instant ... week of school. If it happened, if I still loved it, if I still had time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan dudes kicked lots of people into wells. And then there's this guy: As

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012