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• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help ... anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... interested in my physics classes, this can be enough. I'll then be free to take ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  I can't do anything on my own. That I've used so many crutches in my ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  whipped up in 20 minutes and got inspired so now i’ve decided to take this ... to say it might have been the best food that i’ve had in a while. we ... than in college. the experience of living [annotation note="10 if you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... the best noodles I’ve ever had in my life. It was this little hole in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can ... city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  -time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my ... entertaining. Nor are these meant to be super entertaining. In fact, I kinda hope ... ! I'm still getting used to filming important things in my life, as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  , what can I do ya for?” I drive to my favorite sight in all of Cambridge ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. As I mentioned ... giant paintings in giant frames, buying giant food, baking a giant cake ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  his neighbor can recognize it in the first few bars of the song), and i ... year, and i've loved them ever since. in october, they came to boston on ... remind me of my SO :) slow dance - slow, cute songs that i can whip out if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  executive order in healthcare reform. I've been writing for as long as I can ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... . I want more school? Yes. Why you might ask? In my opinion, I ... bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  flying into our eyes and nearly killing us, and also I fell asleep in the ... DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the ... singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... instructor said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that "all of electronics can be

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  !"]when I was 14.[/annotation] I can stretch my arms wide in the bed and roll ... accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020