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• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  would be an amazing experience. In some ways, the fall was was amazing ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... feel like I belonged at MIT? My freshman fall made me change in some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan. I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... exam, and doing so well that I’d be confident enough with my standing in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  selected idea and how we would move forward.  Right after that, I went ... what I would imagine the fire bending from Avatar the Last Airbender to ... .[/caption] Thursday Busyyy day! We lifted in our Varsity Weight Room and got SWOLE. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to ... populate and self-organize in any given space. So basically, I’m trying to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  that I would normally never do. He was one of the top chess players in ... become what you once scoffed at. I would never be with a boy who makes me ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  go wrong? i lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and i would ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in ... Fall 2003 concert I was in with the MIT Chamber Chorus... it's a movment ... while I was in high school. Last week was tech week for this year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’ll be happy in the moments where I feel like I’ve learned something. If I ... for a time in my life when my novel would have space to breathe. In ... relationships. And a sense that I have not worked on anything deeply fulfilling in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  ’t that close to that many people. In all honesty, I thought things would be ... acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... —one hour til nearby dining halls would close. I put my work away. I pulled on ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  ... In hindsight, my decision-making process was flawed, though I know I ... neuroscience!" I would respond (I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to study at ... in the Infinite,Тƒщ where people would write down random clips of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my ... drawer and my headphones and pens live in the top left drawer). I have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... harbors, all I’d be able to see would be the hazy blur of frustration, panic ... than meaningful, since I don’t believe in there being such a thing as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  -taken-shower. I hated this sign. Because in what world would there be a “Young ... number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... build a treehouse.” Or, in normal-person-speak: hey, I kind of like this

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I ... considered A+) so should I send in my class 10 marksheet....would it provide ... be taken" date. Who do I need to contact in order to change it so my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005