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• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... for a black woman- me- to say that she mattered- that I mattered ... much at stake. There is no room for error, not if I hope to achieve even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add ... Like a great three-toed sloth awakening from a millennial hibernation, it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  enjoyable drama (to waste time on while procrastinating for psets, lol =p) and ... scan frantically for your number to see if you made it). But the theme ... Square to New House (well, more accurately, MacGregor*, but close enough

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I ... people to "ask more dumb questions". I had a few, but I'll leave them for

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  have the money to pay for it), and the solitude of it all are things I ... .091 (Intro to Solid-State Chemistry), my love for chemistry was reignited and I ... I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ’m excited for today; it’s going to be a wonder of a trip. Hour 47: 10:16 AM ... there is plenty of time for me to keep writing and looking around. I leave ... , went back to my seat and napped for an hour or two. Perhaps six and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... sleep statistics for other variables. Definitely. I tried to look at hours ... be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  not related to college admissions. He also discussed how the quest for ... ; happinessis the way." At this point, Ben and I headed off to get ready for our ... with the group photo from the CPW Blog Party: Thanks to you for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  common business practice for Chinese immigrants to open small restaurants ... life compared to other students. For as long as I can remember, one of ... sense of jealousy for other people who don’t constantly have to be on

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the ... new speaker. When listening, she has to follow word-for-word, thinking ... abstraction level, I guess. For example, I didn't have to break down the state

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  , which I am, to some extent, quite grateful for, considering I couldn't fit ... awarded for the column that could withstand the greatest load relative to ... people to build taller). The undergraduates, for some reason, were

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... want to know is do people ever use registries for anything else? Because they seem like something I really want to sign up for.) It's a weird

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ; 17.307 Excited for a class is a... strong term... but I choose to have ... in hopes of catching up to my current life. For example, I have a good ... . This was nice to meet new people but also definitely exhausting for me

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was actually pretty astounding. He’d lost the ability to speak and, for that week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  for warmer weather! Even if that's not meant to be, NYC's food scene and ... ramen burger to boot. You want recommendations for Japanese food/ramen in ... Francisco. On the day before my flight back to Asia, I thought to look for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  life shoves you. *(Credit for this analogy goes to retired astronaut ... .  I went to the career development office for mock interviews.  I ... it, keep listening for that little voice. You don’t need to know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  the year. What is something you’re looking forward to for the rest of ... main thing I’m looking forward to for the remainder of the season is ... from my house in Boston to campus for my first class of the day. At 10 AM

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  for romance novels and I LOVE enemies to lovers so this was great. Red ... I just had to put the book down. When I finished it, I felt empty for ... salary of $xk total compensation. - It's kinda weird for me to put my total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row ... building 56, she to lecture, me to Stata, my home base for the semester. I ... interface for the pingball game) to set up Wednesday’s check-off meetings

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the perfect day. A day when I had a blogger meeting or plans to go out for ice ... convenient to work in between classes + I think is overall good vibes for a

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026