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• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  . Hanging out in a dorm lounge with Song, and joking around for the rest of ... wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the ... This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  analogy for a transistor made equation derivations incredibly clear. The ... for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... acquired standards for friends). But what hit me the hardest was I realized I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... ’s working on a tricycle attachment for wheelchairs that will allow wheelchair

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... inappropriate for my med school applications. Three weeks ago, I wrote a no

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  be able to keep all the equipment for a little over a week and that we ... , and the one I had was mainly for a 5th-grade trip. There were many ... note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting ... ?" "oh, you know," i say. "the usual." every week is a cycle: lectures ... above the water. it's been a hard semester. everyone knows it--feels it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  options (such as: exploring the city, socializing, trying a new recipe ... met up at 7pm at a place called Dear Annie, located just off the Red Line in Porter Square. It was a snowy night. The grimy piles of snow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  question popping up on Facebook statuses lately. For me, 18.02A was the ... . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number ... (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  the younger student, and it was sometimes really difficult -- for ... the one in charge for one more month, but in effect, they had already ... positions that might really require a year's worth of familiarity with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  groceries online and they'll be delivered to the dorm once a week for free ... incredible f e a r. For a bit more context: On the Myer-Briggs test, I placed ... . I saw she had claimed the first bunk and a bookshelf and desk for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a ... my mentor and manager chose a very fitting project for me to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a ... :                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I got here the week of Aug 21 (a bit earlier than most people) because

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ... !), and an interview I got package in the mail. I opened it up and found a ... it up and found a letter on Mr. Potato Head letterhead. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions ... back in March. The drive west gave me a lot of nostalgia. In junior high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class ... /coffee/coke/caffeine/speed/whatever in the dorms? Haha, I'd say that's about average for a freshman pset ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a

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

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  waking up at 4 a.m. to stumble into the boathouse for morning rowing ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that ... A N T S Being off the meal plan has forced me to venture further into

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... at a company like the one I am interning for now once I become a real ... &D Center.  I feel like the things I am doing are really making a difference

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

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  :) There was a beautiful ice sculpture in the shape of a ring! Sadly, the sculpture mysteriously disapeared a while into the event. THE VENUE WAS SO ... cannoli's! So overall, the event was a huge success! We had a bunch of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014