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• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  . There’s so much to do over IAP, so many offerings, and that’s really cool ... exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  love getting to go to so many. Getting my job offer in September ... year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... the areas below and ask yourself what the significant events in each of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  given points throughout your four years in the game. The miscellaneous category are the things you do when you are not actively spending time in any ... skill points in this category, but as much as I hate to admit it, I have

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  immerse themselves in the habits and cultures of their host hall and send ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  time as one. The mere thought of staying in university any longer makes ... chances of getting in by interacting with MIT-related content. I dunno. When ... into, and what I liked to write about that energized me, in front of a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... Mechanical Engineering undergrads in a class known as 2.009: Product ... Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide. In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day ... people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... ’ll meet anyone in the next three months). It’s not like “omg I need a lady ... ’t I?”. I don’t have a lot of friends back here in Milwaukee; I’m gonna

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek-hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... I had. I LOVE board games and games in general, and I love MIT, so

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... applied to MIT largely because of the program in Urban Science and Planning

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... ="75178" image2="75168" /] Sophomore fall: 21H.270, Latinx in the Age of Empire

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... Biotech Group and the UROP office and went in without many expectations ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  distended to suddenly hollowed out.  Eventually, my parents tucked me back in ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college ... -right. It’s a story about two people, in love but breaking up anyway. There

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  African Leadership University for a program in the fall and then return to ... , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim ... student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... after their junior years. A professor at the university where Asia was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of ... In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... borked the 30s. In my defense, there were certain ~ points ~ in my MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... psychotic or clinical depression (at least in the ‘90s, when “anhedonia” was probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018