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• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  and can you follow back 'cause it's my birthday?" No one cares what I ... if i like feeling bad so i can keep getting all of this attention ... what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence ... -shelteresque pantry are now looking pretty spare, so I decided to indulge myself in a ... 've had in my wallet in the past week has been four dollars. I don't know, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... room, that's 30 minutes. What are some MIT things I can do in 30 minutes ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  pride myself in knowing titles that I can genuinely respect as masterful ... . MIT encourages a love of knowledge that I can't help but soak in. But I ... easier. I figured MIT was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn ... or anything of the sort, but I did know that sometime in the spring, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  internship, so I shouldn't really be writing an entry, and I definitely can ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  myself useful in ways that I can be for people who are struggling. 5 ... , I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  now that I'm here, I can verify. They are, in fact, different. I could ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  entire show that Valjean never sings at all. I was Javert in my high ... mutilated me recently, I posted the much-requested "before" picture in my last ... second day of classes and I have now had every class in my schedule at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  -campus? Can I afford to move off-campus?  Why are people wearing shorts in the ... in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far.  And I assure

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check-in ... crashing down… right in the lobby, making the scene I had so dreaded. It was

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• 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 ... , after paying, which actually is way easier in Germany, I went downstairs ... word in German for "the Pope" is "Papst" and I kept thinking he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I ... .01 is taught using the TEAL method, which I kind of explained in this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a ... , but I know that there will be many more times when I can see awesome ... It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  . I hate the disparities in its student population. I hate the way I can ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... communities I cared about. In my head, I had divided my math vs. HASS classes

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... . I think I maybe had a brief stint with it in the summer before? 9th

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020