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• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just ... around. I might be the next time, at least I hope so. I can say with full

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  me, that I can hold my own. I'm beginning to really take pride in my work and in what I'm capable of. And maybe one of these days I can ... snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time ... if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  , but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... shorter than the previous one, unless i pull as hard as i can to stretch it ... quickly what it really means is that their time passed quickly, that i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  timespan and then can knock out the problems in no time. I now spend about ... learning but life in general this semester, and I can fully say I am ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  at least three bathrooms. Hey there. I'm in Leverkusen, Germany ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German ... DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... straight up bio, and in which I had some preexisting interest. I didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a cold and sobering moment as I sat in my friend's dorm room in the late

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get ... player has a built-in playback speed adjuster. That means that I can listen ... ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... . Most people I know in doubles use bunk beds because it saves space. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various ... various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... decorations. Tomorrow I'm moving, and then we're starting to meet in Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  on weekday nights, and sleeping more than I had, like, EVER. And in ... number of letters in the word. Okay, in case I'm not making sense, here ... I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009