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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... (!) on North Court for the first time since fall.I went to a [annotation ... to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part. If you did not submit
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... Dabney House and doomscroll on LinkedIn while waiting for dinner to start ... :00 —  I have a shift guarding the school cannon for an hour, to make sure it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  your reasons for choosing mit are your reasons, it might be better not to ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  wrapping up the night with a Poetry Slam where poets compete for a few bucks ... the National Poetry Slam! While it's generally difficult to get off campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... flowers, in addition to the programs for the night. Food was catered from

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  : learn for love of knowledge. and it's been working. i've come to terms ... . i am comfortable. 21M.011 is my treat to myself. i've loved music for ... feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... subconscious for months but that I’ve not had the time or emotional capacity to ... decide that since course 6 seemed to be the right path for so many others

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  for it to grow and flourish. This kind of luck doesn't strike like a ... for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from ... step back from what they are doing to allow the space for good fortune to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... to [annotation note="For context, Next House freshmen room assignment ... go to sleep,[/annotation] but I ran into Ayyub, who, for undisclosed

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  admissions staff has their own portion of CPW to oversee. For the last few ... performer Assign MIT Admissions staff to be “bouncers” and ushers for the event Bouncers have to be trained on the emergency protocol for the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... boring dead week staple than Secret Santa, lol) and got down to it for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... down again. Couldn't go to sleep. I watched Hermitcraft videos for two ... the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as ... creates a product that calls for yet another decision to be made. And that ... single morning and coming back to sleep at 2:00 am was doable for the first

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  experience was for me and I really want to do it again (and I encourage you to ... one. It confirmed for me that I wanted to go into Education and gave me ... . ----- As I try to reach for my own life goals of mastering French and Korean

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  to sing solo! I guess sometimes music groups are just as desperate for ... [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011