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• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... front of you? is this an identity test?]: Um, I live in ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  of “American” when I’ve also grown up in a [annotation note="Look up a ... lost many of those hobbies when I started middle school. In theory I ... exploration. It’s the kind of identity that feels safe. I was placing myself in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... test. I can name a One Direction song within 3 seconds of listening, but ... of an identity that I've lost in the months coming here. But I'm slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... egregious lies in all of scientific history. You guessed it, I'm referring ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank ... can't really see in Boston), ran around in the snow, etc. And

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... couple of great courses dedicated to Sustainability in Business and I ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... naively thought that I could see all of NYC in 3 days and was quickly ... Met and MoMA. I had a lot of good food. So many people I knew were in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... "Red Sox Swap" instead, swapping socks (of all colors) -- you can't make ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... no idea what i’ll decide on, but i won’t sit in front of the fig tree

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  conducting work equally in both languages. So, now I can say high ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the ... of which I decided to avail myself while preparing for my class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  climb walls, but she has limited stamina. Madeline can dash once in one of ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  -year career. Well, I sure enjoyed my month home in Harrisburg, although ... , but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can ... MIT guest in Harrisburg, an 800-pound butter sculpture, and, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , frankly, down in the dumps. Because of covid, I feel like I never got to ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I ... -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a prefrosh. I’m curious to see how your view of me changes once I start talking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working ... linked to here on the blogs (although I wasn't a part of the "we", then). For your benefit, so you can all get to know each other in one central

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  . I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the ... of: Back to MIT I headed, stopping in Lobby Seven so I could point ... ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008