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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... would be as honoured as me to be compared to an iPhone. 😳) Next, the ... ; I told her that MIT students will express their concerns in any avenue

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  the tenths place)! But if I got a B in any one of them it would stay the ... all day, while I was sitting in my classes slowly passing out from sleep ... calculating last year that if I got an A in every one of my six classes this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  things I would have loved to take part in this semester that I was simply ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... with the decision-making process. In High School, I did a lot with FIRST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I went to that other school, I would end up in academia forever. If I ... used operationally, or would be in the foreseeable future. I could feel ... environment, the ability to take classes in [annotation note="where would I be

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  few days later, I found myself in an office with Hardi Meybaum, co ... least for me). I’ll be spending my IAP playing ice hockey for the MIT ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my ... semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  needed to be alone in that moment. i wish they would tell me what they ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  the world and the people in it would make sense when I needed them to ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  . Admittedly, I would have far less faith in my ability to “do-it-all” if it was ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... equal representation of women in science. When I casually mention to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  , and i would have this dull tension in my abdomen that would persist for ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job ... through while growing up and also because i’m worry-prone in general, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity ... In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... summer, but decided that ultimately I hadn't devoted enough time and would

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Period. As holidays go, I'd say Spring Break falls somewhere in the high ... 've mostly been enjoying myself. I am, by the by, back home in South Bend. I ... . Last year, if you'd told me I would be writing these words, I probably

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  teaching, in graphics design, and it would address what I think is a huge ... how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... . The Fall Career Fair happened in September, and I didn’t really actively

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been ... rejoice when I got class average. My first semester average would have been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  ? MIT students/alums, what advice would you have for incoming freshmen in ... awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005