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• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  ? A prototype of who I will be? Somewhere in the middle? Right now ... depends on how much you can handle. What you are interested in. Your ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for ... gems as, "Can I use your conditioner for my face?", "I cook with MY

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  closed my eyes, I knew I was back in Jordan (and I honestly say this with ... . But in writing this (and trying my best to keep it short I’m sorry!), I ... , it’s 3 AM (MIT prime writing time, I know) and I’m sitting in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can ... recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... inclusions: Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson: I haven't actually listened

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip ... after finishing my last final, I was landing in Portland and being greeted ... some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this ... that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night: 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  Campus Preview Weekend starts TOMORROW! Are you pumped? I know I am! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to go last year, so I'll be running around pretending I'm trying to decide

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the ... about it. But I can assure those of you who applied to these programs that ... was infinitely long?), and the room is packed full. I'll be back in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  process and your talents can be considered with your other talents in your ... pursuit or it requires further explanation than what you can fit in the ... , one or two of these extras can help you in providing us with greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... . There was the year I read almost everything in the school library. The ... my sandwiches component-wise; I only hid in the bathroom and cried from

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... night almost ended in a sketchy, sketchy way, except that I am ... can be summarized with one observation: = In other words: dating = mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in ... over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... build a treehouse.” Or, in normal-person-speak: hey, I kind of like this ... because I function in a perpetual state of procrastination. “But Natanya

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all ... application essays. I guess I can't confirm that he actually used any of that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with ... you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in ... I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna ... of lack of education have we come!” I read Gorgias in 11th grade, in a ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014