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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So there I was one afternoon at MIT, talking to Dumbledore in his office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  , life on the road can be hectic), I hopped back in the car around the ... (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... restaurant in Garden Grove, had some delicious tofu. I tried the Kimchi Beef

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  grapeIf you can sit in a barrel, maybe I'll waitUntil that day I'd rather ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your ... prepare to send decisions out in ~12 hours. I may close comments later today

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... , and best overall. Can anyone guess which category I entered my pumpkin in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this ... , however. Difference 0 - I am 32 now. Last year I was 31. Difference 1 - I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... fascinating, I somehow felt like I was missing something - biology, in its pure ... classes in the fall, I realized that I was heading in the wrong direction

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . ------------------------------------- Dheeraj wrote: "Can i take the SAT in jan 2006? Will its scores be ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... enough to teach an old dog a new trick, I'm sure I can teach you my ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling ... zero dollars and zero cents Fooooooood - what can I say, I’ve missed my ... you can bet I’m keeping sharp over the summer by racing sailboats with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... potential. I can't imagine that kind of one-on-one attention being too common

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening to sad music, rolling the guilt i felt around and around in my head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can ... the confetti traveled in both scenarios. As you can probably guess, I ... models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  the personal pronoun “I” in proofs. After hours of absorbing the style ... influenced the class topics in profound ways. I enjoy my assignments, though ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  can no longer be a part of “When people ask me why I live in ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... function can be in the frequency or time domains depending on what you need to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  enough money in my wallet… “Please, is there anything I can do?” I asked ... ..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority ... plane So i might lose that luggage I look at her, tears in my eyes, and

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022