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• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  actually is, and we managed to make a functional one in two days! Cheers to ... ’s a cannoli?” in a fast-paced conversation is a lot harder than it seems ... It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  with a series of shorter sprints in between. MIT is one of those four ... 'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  the year: pika is no different. In the fall we have a major Work Week ... remarks that, Epsilon Theta is a small and close-knit co-ed fraternity. We live in our beautiful house across from a pleasant public park in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... shadows of a face. In stats I concentrated on the hatching of clouds instead ... at our lunch table. Within a few days of returning home, I fell in love

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  result will be an author in numerous papers! A long with UROPing all the ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... activities that it became legitimately stressful. This year, as a sophomore in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP ... .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... students. these days, I think that online advice is often useful as a ... ’s mostly not advice. if you find yourself in a similar situation as I was, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  . After my admission and with a summer countdown in full swing, this ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... actually is–somewhere I love, but not in the ways I expected.  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  so much information in such a small period of time that it is like ... surround yourself in the craziness that is MIT.  You are only a prefrosh once ... CPW, no worries! Orientation week is just as great, just a week long

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  is an absolute nightmare.  I’m friends with four cats in a trenchcoat ... i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard ... of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  included in one post. Instead, in a conclusion that is longer than the body ... first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from ... this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... . However, we are looking for a bright, young, motivated individual who is ... Gettysburg with a degree in marine biology. I asked him what his dreams, his

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  me happy again in the future.   i think a key realization is ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey ... now. i go to bed at like, 3 or 4 and wake up at 12, which is still a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... , as my academic advisor once told me: writing an essay is a process of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry ... friend Carly '07 is actually a double in 12 and 5 (EAPS and chemistry), but ... graduate program; in MIT's case, the strength of the graduate program is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  equation describing a particle in a gravitational field"]a Schrödinger ... in [annotation note="Any voice, including the robotic ones!"]a perfect ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups ... concerts and i’ve become a much better vocalist in the process, but… i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, aka author of best-selling novel Crying in ... her family for taking me in as a last minute straggler! [carousel image

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year ... exhibitions, and the fact that a 6-hour flight is 6 hours too long (and ... documentation, bottom right.   ——   But, no finals meant I was free

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017