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• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked with or if I grew as a person. Probably both. I loved my team and my project and this was by far my favorite internship.          Health I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of ... people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my ... independence, bringing me closer to both myself and my parents. I was recently

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  it pulled an all-nighter the night before, and considers 7 hours peachy keen and 6 hours adequate, but as soon as term's done and I leave town, it considers itself deprived on less than 8.5 hours per night, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  plan on taking Analog Electronics Lab, Solid State Devices, and C and ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  harbor, it's super pretty to walk around and also is home to the Institute ... are thinking critically about the state of public health and healthcare ... year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  black cap and black gown to receive two bachelors degrees -- one in ... it's worth it to apply and see the financial package MIT will offer you ... everybody walks to their exams together, buzzing and scheming and comparing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  ! (And just in time, right?) After my previous state of confusion, this is ... back and paint my new room, have fun doing REX stuff, see all my old ... weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn ... and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  concert on campus. This year's Spring Concert features Jason Derulo and ... Roast is a celebration of mud, meat, and music. Mud, because of the mud wrestling pit and matches. Meat -- well, that's obvious from the name of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... a couple of good friends from high school -- Ethan, Harsheta, and Xerxes. We chatted and caught up, telling each other about our shenanigans

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  easily to me and though friends offer to help me, I can't help but feel ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  , and Prof. Arthur Bahr generously offered to read it with me. After I ... 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

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  several physical and non-physical aspects of the Institute. We were ... Institute units and satisified 4 GIR requirements. Spring semester is on ... Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having ... down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  15 +/-2, I would have given you a solid 9.5 and then offered to adjust ... , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009