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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... starters, I wasn’t in a huge lecture hall filled with hundreds of people. It seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... , naturally, I thought that I ~had~ to be an extrovert in order to be successful ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... more interested in sophomores or juniors. I do not have a resume. The ... What I acquired from the MIT Career fair last Thursday: 29 pens

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• 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 / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  ! - and psst, he's in one of the photos on that blog I linked to if you can ... time, I flirted with the idea of majoring in History at some really ... , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging and interesting. Mostly I've been writing code in MATLAB and C. The code ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... people the benefit of the doubt, as I'm sure we did in your case. hedwig ... definitely help in the cases when it is available. Aarthi wrote, "I think I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005