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• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  only chunk of our existence that has not yet been determined for us. I used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... ’m not sure what I’ll do after graduation, but I hope it’ll be full of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  , one or two of these extras can help you in providing us with greater ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... can be considered with your other talents in your application. Send this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give ... in so many ways that I can’t even begin to put into more complex words ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... terms with my limits in the past 2.5 years of school. One thing I want to ... someone in their range of vision is "ahead" of them. I think that MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  engage in some of the most lascivious dancing I've ever seen from him ... on "I Can't Make You Love Me," except about half of the audience ... Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  website, and say that if you send me your contact info I can put you in ... , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... entered the field of biology in order to make or find something that can ... of group B, I thought I had convinced my parents that grad school would

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  developing countries). They can be used instead of modern fuel sources in electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend part of my summer in Patagonia, Argentina ... one of our weekly fire jams. I've been fire spinning since freshman fall

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  afternoon I finished all of my work for 1.851 (Water and Sanitation in ... , keep in mind that I was pretty worn out at this point. 12 hours of sleep ... 're like, "no really, I actually can't take anymore of this?" It was sort of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or ... description of what goes on in my head and many other peoples’ heads, of why i ... . something similar can happen when writing music - sometimes when i arrange i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  semester, and the first one I ever participated in. A lot of time I spent ... Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... last Tuesday. I didn’t have a separate sheet of paper to take notes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  that I’m going crazy to think that of all things, benches can be ... ’s brilliant to just stand in front of it and look up and take it in. I’m a ... ’s always a lot of light coming in, and if I want to space out for a little

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... realized quality of one’s work is present in any medium, of course. I was

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  , and in many cases much smarter than, myself. None of what I've written ... in AP Calc BC, and was kind of let down when I got a 98 on my third ... , here's some photos of food I've cooked recently in the lovely Senior Haus

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  lately been less than exemplary. In addition, on Sunday evening, I ate ... and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for ... my dorm (East Campus). I've spent a lot of time living by my own agenda

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... . You can see in the picture where I accidentally skipped over it because ... tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  respective organizations to levels I had only dreamed of while in High School ... . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

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

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

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  admissions release date can spiral wildly out of control. I underestimate your ... I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008