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• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  . I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone ... campus, I finally found my present hidden in a dryer in the Baker laundry ... So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... . So if I wasn't in my dorm room, exploring Harvard Square, or secretly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks ... 'd probably be under "it's complicated." i first visited mit back in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  from what I wrote in your letter. I have always known Emma would be the ... around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... awesome! I imagined that I would try new experiments, test new compounds, and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you ... more about this school than you did in any previous year, that after

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff ... I thought it would be appropriate to talk about why it was I chose MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and ... counting until I was out of Lobby 7, but I got 233. You know, in case you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  different perspectives in these three songs. If I had to rank them, I would ... of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... a story and I think it is really cool [annotation note="in today

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to ... until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college, you may be surprised by the wide range and high quality ... students who are interested in MIT's faculty-led ensembles such as the MIT

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... doing, and why. I was sure James would be happy as a neurosurgeon. I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... shrouded in a dense fog, but I imagine that in the summer, it would’ve been ... would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  the "reading kid." I read books with friends in [annotation note ... ="1022"] i have no idea why my face is so distressed in this picture but ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  subway back in 2003 with duffle bag in hand where I walked into my dorm ... to teach me when I would call home and complain about hard tests and feeling oftentimes overloaded that I would look back one day and see the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... 10. I won't have to think about the Crystal Field Theory... ...Which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... the issues it addresses. In his words, “I thought it might resonate with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023