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• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  faculty in the world, I felt there was an overall lack of this drive in ... middle class, and in my opinion I feel this creates a feeling of ... getting into MIT, but I think having a little faith in yourself can

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high, layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  of other people in the house rather than the ones I was initially ... the name of self-care, or if I've stunted myself in some way under the ... Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... I would have less time to invest in pursuing a minor in one of my ... the question of "what kind of jobs can I get with a major like that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  Gander, Canada comes together to take in the hundreds of passengers from planes that had to be detoured to their city's airport in the days ... One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  it. I spend the rest of the afternoon working in the Stud before ... another long night of hanging out with friends, I collapse in a wrinkled ... ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  , and even though I can see a horde of Psets slowly approaching in the ... of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon as I stepped out of the cab, I could tell that everyone else felt the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think ... of the world (though it may feel like it tomorrow). I'd like you to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my ... can also explain why i am slower in conversations? as in, i find it very ... people often think i am smart because i think a lot and can solve a lot of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is ... So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  most of these t-shirt bearing tech companies in this reality. Instead, I ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most ... , pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of companies set up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... .”   2. HUBRIS (aka, Biting Off More Than You Can Chew). Sometimes I ... , some you swear you just saw move, many floating in vats of nutrient baths

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  fine. I was organized, turning things in on time, attending most of my ... , and then, and then— I hit the wall, in the middle of an IAP which was ... sides of the spectrum, and I can handle it, so why not? It is perhaps true

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  , but we’ll get the closest approximation that we can in these times. I ... the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... . Stuck in the confines of my house, the familiar tracks in my mind. I like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  . I hate the disparities in its student population. I hate the way I can ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... think I wrote some quality pieces. Some of them made their way here

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  have some experience in. I know my hair, so I can experiment with it. I ... more experience to judge my looks and tell me what I can improve in my ... I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... amongst ourselves in the class of 2024 since committing back in May. I’m not ... exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... in front of my laptop crunching numbers, latex, or code.  I’m an ... competition class) in the spring with most of the other MechE sophomores, I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023