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• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  . I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... 's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I ... , awesomeness in general. So I thought I'd write about some of the more awesome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can ... polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to ... explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  fully heal. and i can’t complain, right? this isn’t the worst problem in ... was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  : I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of ... ] twice a week? Of course I am. I’ve been in 8.01 (Physics: Classical

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  in this video. * I sent 107 emails having to do with the i3 over the ... them were "oh my god, can we do that" emails. Other ones were "I can ... Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... with me after work, and it's not like people have dorm rooms i can crash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  process, but a short one. I had to apply online, book an appointment, go in ... other school in Cambridge. Try every dining hall, so that you can gauge ... for it. Get your physical MIT ID. You can get them at any kiosk. I don

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  disclaimer, I don’t think paper revisions should be like this. In fact, it ... prediction when I got an email. I remember sitting at my desk in the Google ... had left the office, so I was sitting back in my chair, scrolling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  the place. I found out how kind people can be, though - the strangers in ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... the year, I can describe what happened pretty confidently. Here are some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can ... hypothesis. In a sense, I guess I can say that I truly felt like a real ... I can't help falling in love with the excitement of obtaining a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  getting in :) Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't be of much help. If you ... participating that i can write down in this 'list' where my passion, for what i ... high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I ... Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... often, is "I don't judge, I just take pictures." In this case, I feel like ... a time when I'm not sleep-deprived and can argue with her without

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to ... Logs of the Muses, but I'm sure to think of something I missed in this

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  that I'm pretty sure I need to. Nothing was turned in late, no task was ... coming days, I feel behind if I'm not ahead for what's ahead, y'know? In ... tasks, I can't like anything with this level of worrying and meticulous

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011