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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to ... Surprise #3. Figuring out a career path is just one bucket of surprises to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  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 ... of my major-related classes in sophomore year. I had a lot of doubts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  day is a success.” “Sorta weave in worldbuilding as your protagonist ... browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... , started designing a show-and-tell style fashion class. Drawn in by peer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  "The author has filed this entry in the 'Life After MIT (Careers ... Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing ... to his craft. This is how you write a fabulous college essay. "What ... like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  fit my personality and wants in a living space perfectly. "Loop is a ... Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  advice was right on. My banner is now successfully hosted in my own little ... , you need to get some Kerberos tickets. (Kerberos is a security protocol ... your identity to the MIT computers. For whatever reason, SecureFX is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  kept the Norton anthology that we used as a textbook in the class, and it ... self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  summarize it in a manner that is "understandable to everyone." Anyway, all ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  arrive at a conclusion is one of the best skills you can have. In what ... basically a crash course in being a leader in the engineering workplace over a ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  was that a museum in Lowell, MA was interested in displaying ElectroPlushies in a toy exhibit for several months. I went and visited them a couple ... 'd gotten in a while! Ok, Hasbro doesn't want them, but this way we'll have

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  like a chore at first, remember that everything in you application is ... Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston ... in A Strange Land (Salvatore). Favorite food: BAR-B-Q and charred

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  're a prospective freshman who is interested in the particular sport and ... question. I believe that some time I received in the mail a postcard asking ... 've gotten a recruitment form in the mail, fill it out and send it back. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the ... enjoy a birthday cake that his girlfriend made for him in the kitchen (he ... years since I got in and yes it took a little while but I'd be lying

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end ... session is done. I was a counselor for Camp Kesem MIT during my freshman ... businesses. Typically, a “date” is bought by his or her friends, who pool

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... schedules in calendar format"]Hydrant[/annotation] and [annotation note='A

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  else. While chatting with a MIT graduate who is now in the top rungs of ... to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... procrastinated. I procrastinated a lot. In fact, it wasn't until the night before

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011