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• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  life and what it's meant to him and offered to introduce me to his ... ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people after sophomore year; more distant and withdrawn and on edge, more prone ... , well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  were loaded with burgers day and night and prefrosh roamed free across ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was seeing campus through rosy colored glasses, and because I had already

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  reintroduce myself and talk about life post MIT at MIT. I graduated June 8 and ... my research and being able to continue looking at unanswered questions ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... 's and Men's Athletic Conference"] NEWMAC[/annotation], we won 10 games and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance ... had three floors, over 30 rooms, and a hot tub, so it was a very very good time. however, i subsisted on oreos, mozzarella sticks, doritos, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust ... action and fun, certain things along the way make you think. It seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  gotten comfortable in it’s state of unconsciousness, and hauling yourself ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... ’re not even big things, just little chores here and there. Like taking my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  (Course 9 and Course 6-7) actually submit my concentration completion form ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be ... and several rainstorms from several feet of table and a window away. We worried about flooding (and hosage); meanwhile they withered in the cruel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... (Vamos…); NBA Finals (aww Boston…; next year!); Wimbledon (Rafa!!!); and ... and all the fans in pandemonium of national pride is pretty exciting – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  . Let's take a look around 54-100. Shiny and state of the art. I did a ... 't take MY word for it. Read on. It's 12 units like most classes here and it meets 2-3:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lecture and some time on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... representing events from their first two years at MIT, and drawing upon suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved ... slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice ... turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year."]CI-H[/annotation] class. I've really enjoyed it. I never got to take Greek and Roman history

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember ... and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated ... The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016