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• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  the research I would do in the coming years. I applied for a long ... Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... that make sense with where I am now. i. ambition Now, in high school

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really ... 'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like ... already know most of the choreo. In addition to Chamak, I'm also co

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... article, I probably would have laughed at you and walked away), but ... us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... this. And because of it, I've been thinking a lot about what he said. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... issues, but that we would land in 7-8 minutes. He didn't actually tell us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  a drowning snowman in the moat?” And we laugh, agree that it would ... yourself one of the most impressive things I’ve done in a while ... So it’s been cold lately. And when I mean cold, I mean like our-room

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  to happiness and (dare I even hope) success someday in doing something ... about teaching at MIT. How would you describe yourself/what do you do? I ... not I'd be interested in teaching a course on comic books, I jumped at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... , stimulating, and entirely fulfilling. In many ways, I am sure that I would not ... , exactly, did this all happen? To really answer the question, I would have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was ... also be FOMO—when I would hang out with people at night at my dorm, I ... games. I really, really love playing this game, in spite of how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it ... . In high school (and middle school, and elementary... and college), I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... married. I got a dog. I moved, once, and now I've lived in the same apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... your applications brought back some memories for me. When I was in high ... applicants, many of whom I would absolutely love to invite to our campus. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science. I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical engineering and robotics because I was also interested in those things. At one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  olympiad classes, but I use “swapped” here very loosely. I would still ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  colds" or "the last time I was sick was 1918" or "MY leg would never fall ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... would be to get better because there wasn't any possible way I could feel

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable flame retardant plastics, and I was actually chosen as a finalist in a ... decision admissions results came out for MIT!! I was deferred back in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  educational and adorkable so I thought I would post it here too as a little ... Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the ... prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  good. but maybe it would've been better if i spent that time working on ... friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... , wondering what would've happen if i'd chosen that instead. and it'd just be so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• 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 / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA ... specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006