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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  growing up, or so I’m told), freshman year I joined a handful of new clubs ... and work later in the fall when my schedule frees up a bit. While I’m ... I’m doing. I’d like to think I’ve changed from my experience there

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  idea what I’m doing in the kitchen) so sometimes living in Maseeh and its ... around with pretend excel sheets for the last month or so and I’m slowly getting the hang of it. While I’m no course 6, I think I'm starting to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  because they were a long time ago and I'm getting old), and all these blog ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was ... opportunity for learning. This does not apply to everybody, of course, I'm just

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  know it might look like I'm smiling and enjoying myself in that picture, but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... breakdancing. Extreme breakdancing, apparently. I'm not Yan, but I can take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  movies when I'm having a bad day. They cheer me right up. No, I'm actually ... prepare their children for high school applications, nevermind college. I'm ... nice people who care, you're also dead wrong. I'm just an undergrad here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  official major, it's pretty much what it says on my blog home. 3) I'm paid by ... . Not really, but yeah, I'm getting paid. BUT in my defense, I blogged all ... do it for free. I'm not just saying that. Really. This is one of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  . True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... department. (I'm not sure who advises students who remain undecided after ... . Personally, I'm glad I took into biology at MIT, because I learned the way that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  it? I'm so much better at writing than reading/verbal skills. I thought ... and their addresses?" I'm sorry, our privacy policy prevents me from ... b, or did I miss anything?" I'm a bit confused by your question. Last

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... !"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in a math PhD program. Carl S. '23: I'm Carl, and I'm a first-year math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  because I'm ultimately not sure how many of these attributes of humans can ... , "here's something I'm mad about and here's what I'm going to do," I'm ... , probably something I'm overly sensitive to, having spent a number of years in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  " on it Here are their intros: hi besties, i'm Fatima, from Pakistan! i am currently pretty undecided on my major but i'm considering ... co-chair!!(also helloo '26s 👀) Hello! I’m Nora and I’m from

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  other professions. But I’m not sure many of us really knew what being an engineer meant. So that’s why I decided to write this post. I’m hoping it ... therefore I, too, am always changing. I’m early in my career so I must

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  engineering (?!) internship at local newspaper mit puns (e.g. “i’m excited ... , given that i’m under five feet tall.)  i didn’t have words for the mpact i ... , something i’m still ironing out. when i got deferred after early admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... morning, showering, eating breakfast, and whatever else I do when I’m ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... share some cool things I read with y’all, so I guess I’m writing this ... -minute read. But there's nothing. I'm too obviously desperate, utterly hopeless

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  -by-case basis, because until I'm in the committee room with the rest of my ... ). ------------------------------------- SpeckJr wrote: "I'm definitely sending in some supplementary material to ... mail. ------------------------------------- Warren wrote: "I'm confused

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going ... requirement. I'm scared that I won't get into a good college because I don't have any A.P classes and I'm not in the Intel Science program in my

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

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  that. Flash forward about two years, and I'm one of our floor chairs ... .   I feel it when I'm hiding in a dorm room with twenty people, all ... just turned on the shower next door.   I feel it when I'm counting

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  festival? Sounds fun! What's happening there? JOHN: I'm actually... not sure ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... feels true. (1:13-1:45): "You've been on my mind, \\ Though it may seem I'm fooling. \\ Wasting so much time, \\ Though it may seem I'm fooling. \\ What

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024