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• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  an essay, I guess. Anxiety: You get picks for lots of things you aren ... things. You’re writing essays, working for an arts foundation, taking ... firehose. Are you even good enough for college in general? Or are you just

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  stirred within me an excitement for... life in general. I know I’m being ... receive $1,000 in seed funding for their project and mentorship from MIT ... the 2019 THINK team saw in my proposal but THANK YOU for believing in me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  teaching assistants. (In case you had an exceptionally well-englished TA, you ... suppose that's understandable. I have an aversion to expired dairy. In fact ... preparing for this. Guy in Seat 17A: What are you snacking on? Me (eating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  (where I am now!) for... Meeting #5: An astronomer in Leiden, the ... Concentration Advisor and I made an argument for why the lit classes I've taken ... and my colleagues at the NRAO. Today, I talked with an astonomer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  ="aligncenter" width="346"] I was late for class that day 🙁[/caption] After 12 years in ... solve my problems in ways I didn’t know they could be solved. For some ... makerspaces or waiting in line at Bosworth’s for a warm drink (Bosworth’s exists

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  in three days as an emergency back-up for[annotation note="every year ... in sophomore spring, that for me the meaning of life, in essence, is ... year, in the playwright's note for a play I wrote called Remembering Her

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  why you are interested in their field of research. For me, I started ... too. I only have swimming goggles for when I flail around in the pool ... . In an effort to see as much as I could, I was hesitant to revisit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  asks for input from the students on questions so we get in the habit of ... particular question in class she'll send an e-mail out to all her students with ... didn't go instead of facing the shame of walking in late. Then I went for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  years back, for example. When I was practicing with an instructor, did she ... minority myth (a topic I’m personally invested in). For and against ... Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end ... addresses will be sent an email at the same time). Students can either send in ... , beginning this year we will be setting up an email address specifically for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  testimonies. What's worse, maybe the facilities provided for the arts are in ... you about, only to find it's actually an electric drum set for which ... most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online ... , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  'm in three different stalking channels. One for Cru, one for Orientation ... this as the reason for why i haven’t written anything in the past 3 ... series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate ... continually looking for service and runs out of charge in about 12 hours. And ... in 32-123? Thanks to Uncle Jim and Aunt Maura for the super-cute video.

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that ... ” mindset will proliferate as a way of making decisions for the community in ... bloggers for not writing about this sooner.) Though this is an easy way to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in ... , and then turned around. And for a couple minutes, we just walked in ... . He took several. Or how, after eating dinner for the third time in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  ’t hesitate to ask. I wish you all an enjoyable flight. Thank you again for ... behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... around in the boarding area. The anxious march through the plane door. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the ... -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... if I'm in mortal peril, but that's why I have an imposing ... green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006