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• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... Hospital in Springfield, a nearby city in Massachusetts. I had always been

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few ... .5 years of our lives and relationship in there. Although I'm really excited ... because of the pandemic. I never would have started running, or lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  minute work in. Wednesday - 9/15 Before Class I practiced a little bit of ... beginning of school year B) Working in Stud5 (7-9) I then studied/worked in ... . Working in Stud5 (12-1) I worked on the fifth floor of the Student Center

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... slides can legitimately remind you of the day you discovered Paint in ... On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... doing well in all of my classes, but I felt somewhat that my hand had also ... troubled me. Upon reflection, I realized that—in spite of the number of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying ... 's just the act of putting my phone down when i've been stuck in a scrolling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  buy into the notion that somewhere, in some crevice of my brain, lies ... flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I think that I've done an okay, if not great, job taking advantage of IAP ... that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... 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

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

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can ... I'm in reading mode. I listen to CD 101.9, which always reminds me of ... minimum of a half-gallon of iced green tea day. I brew it in mason jars in

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  area in an unknown city at NIGHT. Suddenly the reality of the danger I ... north end, I can make it." "Just come home, we're already proud of you ... lots of great, safe places to run in Boston, and until I started to leave

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  planet or that we were in New York City ready for a day of awesome. We ... at us but before she can say anything I chime in. "We're over 18 ... said "Can I let these two in? They look young." Luckily the guy wasn't as

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  . It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a ... .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  top of a few weeks in therapy, so I'm letting this entry make its debut ... ), in the middle of last semester (October or November, I believe ... totally unrelated question: I noticed in one of the dorm videos that some

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most ... awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... .” Abby and I stand in awe. What is this “fall clothing,” and do we need it ... first taste of fall. Yeah, I will admit I am freezing my butt off. But

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016