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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in ... , there was a place where I could finally breathe. A page in my notes app

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... been happening in my life that i could write about. i could maybe talk ... very lazy person in terms of meeting people—thanks to the pandemic—so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  website, and email him expressing interest in the class. Step 4: Find the ... thought it would be, since our semesters are no longer clogged with GIRs ... form. Step 10: Give in said form to the registration office in Mass

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  )"]CNC[/annotation] with the LMP instructors. I would later learn that Wade and Josh are some of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay ... for, uh, weeks. I eventually got one in, but by then I was too hosed to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during ... advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... would say Kirkland, Washington. It's where I've spent most of my life ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  recently.   I came home from college having all these plans for how I would ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without ... improve myself so I wouldn’t look so pale in comparison to him. At first I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  volunteering trip, I would also be gaining something substantial. This was hour 1 ... closed my eyes, I knew I was back in Jordan (and I honestly say this with ... and that they would probably be visited again next year. Still naïve, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  I suspect I would have liked it. If you're potentially interested in ... for students in grades 9–12.     On Wednesday, May 13th, I ... a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  kicked in, my brain began to register that I would be going to school out ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i would finally seize these couple of months to explore new interests ... -person. but the simple fact that i'm in my room and not in a classroom ... ="this seems like a lot, but i read 150 books in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  just remember being in awe after each episode. From what I remember the ... One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies ... opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off ... about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  than the norm. i think i would like to live in boston - i like boston a ... i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... Memorial Drive?" "Oh, no. I just moved. I live in 3 Ames Street now." "380

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... object is moving in a circle. I got a lot more confident with rotational ... -depth than I'd encountered in high school, and I got much better at using

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked ... until other people came back in. At 6:45, I woke up and discovered that 1 ... handed me a pair of crutches and said he would teach me to use them. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012