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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... boring and lonely. Yes, I was looking forward to having a roommate. Leave ... the Student Center to check in with the Orientation people. (This is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... , so they're going to ticket the event by invitation only with a ... my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... syndrome from me. I was going to write a blog post about it, but I couldn ... watching anime earlier. I instead use a format similar to PDFs and Word

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  be a thing. They thought about it for a bit, talked to Caltech’s admissions office, and then decided it was a bit too strange to officially ... sewn to the top of his head, and Bernoulli got a dentist appointment, a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  being said, if you can find it within you to do so, please vote for me. A ... ! Thanks a ton you guys, I don't mean to essentially blog a commercial but ... Last year Jess wrote about a blogging scholarship that she had

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with ... a groovy way to work out. Soccer. Even though I won’t play another ... friends, like going to Celtics games, exploring a new part of Beacon Hill

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city ... then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition ... now i mostly just want to learn a lot and work on meaningful technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen ... is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... MIT student to talk about my life. Don’t get me wrong, this was a time ... ’s just that whenever I started to write a blog post, I would immediately

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... reading assignments? We will make a summary of your responses to the ... this was probably mostly due to illness, but a lot of it still holds for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... . I continued to follow all of his stuff after that. I was a bit too shy to go up after the talk to say hi, and I'm sure a small part of myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... , you have to write a first draft before you realize what you were even ... if I had left behind a messy room and come back only to realize that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real ... (RIP CME). Michael C. and I even travelled together to Tanzania for a safari

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... this happens. "Typically a bus will be out of service going to the start ... then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to ... as to make it one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in ... for a few years after I came to MIT. He was a great resource for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006