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• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although most of the distribution is done by NGOs. Our first, rather impromptu meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... form of shin splints. I asked around for advice and got plenty: Stretch

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... , not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus, two semesters of physics, one semester of chemistry, and one semester of ... schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... ." "OK LET'S DO THAT!" Anyway. Lots of questions, lots of answers

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer from one of them, then I’d strongly consider doing an internship there ... try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014