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• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it is currently 2025. i'd firstly like to say that i ACTUALLY started it in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do ... blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  that way, since the obvious option is to major in something I liked to ... when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident that nothing ... that I was going to go into neuroscience. But I was becoming a little

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  summer jobs pre-MIT! Do what you love, whether that's working in a lab or ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most ... is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total ... told me that, why yes, it is, in fact rather “difficult”... Sweet! (He

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  in place. The TSA agent informs me that I've been selected for a random ... a Toyota Corolla) and drive to my hotel. The hotel room I'm in is ... car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students ... didn't take a single one. Instead, I buried myself in AP Government and ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2026!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I am stuck in ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... strawberries, tomatoes, figs, etc before my wife and I do Our beloved blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  's selfish (at least it feels that way), but it's important. I can't do everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... the seasons-- that I'm okay with. I can anticipate it. But sometimes, a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... ’m not very interested in finance itself, i do think it’s impressive that ... for a semester or a summer at a time. so how do i choose something that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  . Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... —and that's precisely what I did! My show is called "Peaceful Purgatory" and ... name of my show conveys the unique combination of music I play; that is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  into holiday mode and I believe that you need to do the same. As I read your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  and we decided it’d be worth a daytrip. One thing I noticed is that my ... MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really ... inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... earlier draft I had made it "message in a mobile, yeah" but I decided that ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to ... Things that I miss about high school How I figured out my next steps in ... goal." Stuff like that. I'll be checking in on this post throughout

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the things they've been dreaming to do." I hope you got a taste of that ... , you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now ... next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024