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• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every ... it's something that's become so ingrained in me because of the way I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you ... -based administration. I would've done that before posting this, but because of finals I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Background, Cover Letter, or some comparable title.) I would guess virtually ... in speech therapy. When I asked her why, Jennifer said she had taken a class in it for fun and really loved it. But then I pressed her: was there

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the ... in inquiring about financial aid. I have contacted my usual financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... ago i would’ve said something like adult life sucks and you should just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... passionate about—sustainable transportation in developing countries. I haven ... rowing. I decided to come down to DC for the conference back in October or

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  about them. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing--I never would have met ... '10 in the background. Anyway, I gave her some cocoa to thank her for ... 't think I really said that last thing, but in my head I did. In my head I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was ... couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... I'm not sick and just go about my normal things because I would rather

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable, when the river and the skyline would fill my vision, and i would forget ... , i knew that i couldn’t. when that feeling would come, i’d turn around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  you had asked me three years ago what I would be doing right now, you would have gotten a very different answer.  I didn't know what grad school ... summer, I've realized I have less than 5 weeks left in my internship, and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... ,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I ... ’s chances of thriving.  There are settings in which I did really excellent

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  intense on me. Every so often, Raymond would check in on me, asking if I ... nicely, but unfortunately, we are in a pandemic. I would have two ... .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  had been totally fine. But I couldn’t help but worry. Perhaps in my mind ... can give. Here we are, in this universe where I chose MIT. I love MIT in ... ’s exit options to attend medical school, but I recently checked her LinkedIn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... them would return in the fall as freshmen and I was thrilled that I would

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  wants to comment about their experience, that would be wonderful. I went ... physically building things. Even though I would love to learn how to construct ... other questions beyond what I showed in the video or was written in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my ... of them in all of us. I will end this with just a few conclusions

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  . I never thought I would be thinking about all of this since in high ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  of myself as "being in Boston" when I'm at MIT; now, I'm just "being ... a word without using it in the definition, I can only gesture at it and talk around it. When I first came to MIT, I would often pass by a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010