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• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  events aren't worth attending. This is 100% a lie! For a quick ... ? Well, for example, sleep: at CPW, going sleepless just meant a good nap ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  :  One meal for each of the three books/seasons. I considered doing a meal ... , symbolism, or theme. For a few weeks throughout the summer, I would watch ... attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... -800 range. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one in understanding ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... major in Course 14. If you are a senior in high school, don't trust your

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very ... . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... failed a test I studied two days for. Then I slept for three hours a night ... begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  system was important for all three of them in their decision to join a D9 ... .   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges ... is primarily used for events and programs, and has a smart TV with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  a good helper if you don’t. Trust me. It’s science. Ask for help ... , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... trusted MIT to make a good decision (though actually, I’d been almost ... for the RA round, I’d like to share a bit about my mindset and what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a ... ;   In September 2011 I started studying for a Master of Public ... overall Akron's pretty nice. Last fall, I trained for and ran in a half

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  with me. I created patterns for a host of South Park characters and ... stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... made this Tesla logo). I even worked on a cross stitch for my son

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  always been a family affair for me, and I longed to eat with other people ... ’t have psets due until the second month so I scraped by for a while. One ... and told me about a support group for people with perfectionist thinking

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  's, because lecture for both classes was not helpful (because of a combination ... potential courseroad for CMS degree Now, the reason we scored this a 9. We ... specialists, those who can do one thing really well. That one thing for a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... for that and also a persuasive presentation for 15.276 on voting in 2018 ... flatmates for a hug.       === Don't be a ghost, say hi

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  grades are pretty important. But please don’t believe for a second that they’re the most important thing. Made “”“art””” What I did spend a ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015