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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  making friends in an environment where you dislike most of the people, I ... likes we get or how many people we Snapchat. Like I said in an earlier ... for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class ... common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the perfect day. A day when I had a blogger meeting or plans to go out for ice ... convenient to work in between classes + I think is overall good vibes for a

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... is for sleeping and one is for jumping.) Being an intern and feeling ... we were actually located in an office building that required badge

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked ... Parade, be sure to keep an eye out for The Catalina Foothills High School

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in ... mercilessly for the rest of third grade. This tends to instill in people either ... cell division or correcting the grammar in an English paper. My journal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  , and one pset fewer than usual so i can pretend for an hour that i'm not ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  friend, Mohamad, flew in to quarantine and stay here with us for break to ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... side project where they want to create an auto turret with a nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  consists of 2 points for an average of 4 PE classes needed. Classes are ... yoga/flexibility in general (especially when compared to an "alternative ... lot more a burden to pay hundreds of dollars for a local class later in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... feels normal or even almost too bland for MIT, my personality in a non ... 've made friends and they're absolutely lovely, but there's still an ache in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  traffic laws. My grandma lives in Vancouver, Washington, about an hour ... wanted. MIT asks for a lot in terms of high school classes and if you aren ... of the requirements. Luckily this wasn't an issue I ran in to. I went

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium ... " thing for us is the prosthetic kind. So tell me, what could we create in ... "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  reports about their meetings with you. For some of you, an interview may not ... contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  's like an Oscar. That would be amazing if I were chosen for it, but it's OK ... average, received numerous awards and recognition for excelling in math ... and Engineering Fair, the Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  year as an EMT in Israel before his freshman year. This gave him a lot of ... .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  on an 8.223 assignment at 2 AM in the morning after realizing that the ... like stars glimpsed in an expanding universe. I watch the light reach me ... mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  into the Great Outdoors for MIT students, but they also have rental cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... metaphor for the grinding mismatched gears of bureaucracy?) In the end ... to an official school song is probably the Engineer’s Drinking Song

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  2018 meetup in a couple weeks, so if you are in the area and an admitted ... "Oh yea you guys don't have armadillos up there in yankeeland ... here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... knowledge? i'm an sra for macgregor this summer, which is kind of like a gra ... after a year of not seeing people in-person much i lost all capability for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021