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  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... 's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on. As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so ... be more involved in some of my former student groups, I intentionally ... ...) A lot of things happened to me that I am quite sure did not happen to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  it was all worth when I was offered the role of Bobby! I was so hyped ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post-show depression :( If you’ve poured your life into some sort of seasonal activity

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited ... that what I'm more worried about is letting my whirlwind of stressful ... mixture of self-aware rambling and MIT things to exercise my Internet

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how ... Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was ... Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  % of your friends are within 2 feet of you at any time while you're awake ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... capital of whichever Dakota or Carolina you find to be more mneumonically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work ... kind of supplemental material that is very useful. I look forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  fact, I would guess that the type of housing MIT offers(students choose ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... again a team of drastically more boys than girls.   The first

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... are the themes of the play? What kind of couch do I want? Should

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to ... . It's a bit of a tough one because my goals have changed substantially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005