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• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  floor. From what I can read in Ms. Landlord, she seems like one of ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... after consulting most of the Chinese people I know in China, we decided to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... . I want more school? Yes. Why you might ask? In my opinion, I ... bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  whole process. i have a lot of hope for the fall. i feel like i’m in a ... i’m proud of, and i hope that in the future i will become less lost ... , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... amount of academic freedom I have. I’ve had a huge amount of choice in ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  it, and then over time i can train myself to notice and let go of the habits associated with regretting. i can learn from the consequences of my ... — there is plenty i am skeptical of in the world and in myself, like our

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10 ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  around in bowls of milk. One day I too shall be an old, one eyed cat who ... something new? While I can’t yet say whether or not this shotgun method of ... the original metaphor, I might be covered in milk now and out of breath

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... American sports, and I remember all the time he spent in front of the ... 't speak for this, since I've never lived in my fraternity house). Of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation ... of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can ... burned. I’m hoping that now, finally, I can teach myself to schedule in ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  saying something. Let's go through all of these so I can fangirl about ... can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... .013 lecture, I'm honestly kind of excited to be back in a biology class. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  gospel of SkyMall. Until then, I plan to start a business in manufacturing ... order of business: I can haz boarding pass? ... in a Vacuum.” Nary a mark of the sender's identity was uncovered, but a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  ways it felt like my life was paused. (I'm sure lots of y'all can relate ... beginnings of deep friendships in the East Campus courtyard. I felt like a ... library windows.[/caption] Next, I showed up to the first meetings of my in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... of my life. BWAAAAA!! But in the end, it was all good because I GOT ... ! Look what MIT can do." In all honesty though, it wasn't until I actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!