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• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  completing 2 essays, the math section, and a verbal section, I am offered to do ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  words. We want it comfortable, we want it just, we want it innovative, and ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  deep knowledge and his language translation research at Oxford University ... I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture ... and heavy eyelids. I cracked open my textbook and traced out kanji

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million ...   With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning ... got shorter, the angst got angstier, and those headphones got stitched

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  haved like 30 celsius degrees all over the year and I must admit I do not ... just about three years ago this week when I was a freshman and still sort ... school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born ... MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan ... thought] led me to study Japanese, in order to learn about its history and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends ... which room, which bed, which pillow, and so on... until you've decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  , and we were flying back to Boston to be greeted by 19 degree weather! it ... weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for ... group of [annotation note="all junior, sophomore, and freshmen bombers

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  've got four piercings on my right ear, and two on my left[/caption] This ... in my dorm went and got piercings together. Their excitement and joy ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  degrees is "freezing cold" and we break out our winter coats. Unfortunately ... symbols on the tabs disappear and you have no idea where you are clicking ... uninformed self, they seemed foreign and special and important. I was under the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  I ate lunch today with Mollie, and we talked about different classes that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  the SuMmErFuN folks, and trekking up and down the Infinite multiple ... an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  outcome."]shocking[/annotation] and continue to influence the current state ... would reply to the prompt "Tell me about yourself." The title and subtitle reflect the subject and tone I was going for. [annotation note="I apologize

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever ... really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange ... '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  students who call alumni and solicit donations to the institute. A third of ... summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator ... school year, and then worked the summer between high school and college. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... undeveloped, unappealing, and industrial. “So it made some sense from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  -fledged business proposals, submit them to various Institute competitions, and ... with that logic. Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your own shirt and convince you that he’s going

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  my life (fun)^-1. The only thing worse than being sick and wanting to ... compares to wanting to just curl up and die while also knowing you need to spend hours working on 8.02, 2.001, and 18.03. But, as any MIT student

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  : When I visited Borders last week for their liquidation sale and saw Prof ... so well after working with her on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a ... compared the fervent discussions and debates that occurred in taverns and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011