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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled ... , lastly (3) I feel like Christina's site is a pretty good representation of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  make that up the next morning at 8 a.m. i hadn't studied nearly enough ... for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  application is read in a holistic manner, within its proper context. ... We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you ... one of those boring spots in the background? I am a firm believer that ... admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  is a whole ass 3-story fort that I helped out with!![/caption] June 9 ... this summer, I can very confidently say that I had a lot of fun. I do ... I do a MISTI summer (unpaid) internship or apply to jobs that will

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  that in a weird way, I am being forced to reinvent my personality–to find ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... actually is–somewhere I love, but not in the ways I expected.  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found that having a job and participating in an extracurricular activity have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  major equivalent of doing an internship. in a blog post, he writes “i ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... time in my three years of joining code jam, i won a shirt. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... realize that our country of racial diversity is a minority in a world full ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  MIT.” “We are?! Why is that?” “Because MIT is having a party and I ... hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big ... in a circle. We bought balloons, we bought beer and hard lemonade, we

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  job, but a lifestyle that is being sold to us. I eventually submitted ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... of “American” when I’ve also grown up in a [annotation note="Look up a ... !?!” Sure, once upon a time I had hobbies. In elementary school, I summed up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... the MIT crowd. Anyways, I can write a whole entry on french toast in ... I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  software I could find that allowed both reversing a video and speeding it up ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  -facing documentation of that semester is 6 straight A's--the best semester I've ever had ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... Instagram in over a year, so my profile is cluttered with content from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  [LIVEBLOG 🔴] Making My ENTIRE Comic Portfolio BEFORE THURSDAY AND ALSO EVERY OTHER PROJECT IS ALSO DUE THIS WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

  

  , but my phone is dead and I realized that a rock got stuck deep in my ... it], and after swiping in I saw the only food that was out was a big ... doing Thermodynamics homework that I have to do for my major, or drawing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  before our eyes, I can’t wait for all that is in store. My own prefrosh ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun ... as I think about all of the prefrosh that will be checking-in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , but also because of what I was doing. I worked in the Laboratory of the ... note that one of the first things I learned when I got to Paris is that there really is history _everywhere_. For example, I'd cross a street and

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  literature! Since he's spent quite a lot of time in Brazil, I appreciate that ... 've been having a crisis about what I really want to do. Urban planning is ... week is, after all, a ~10-hour ordeal. But I've been liking it a lot so

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  , but the gist of it? I’m a starry-eyed frosh who thinks that MIT is the ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even ... is that there’s a pretty universal handful of questions that all

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010