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• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  it determines if you will need to take a Writing Intensive HASS class."]finding ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  decide to uproot and find yourself making small talk over tapas at a table ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... to figure out a system that works for you. Time management is really

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT. Many students struggle to find time to sleep without playing a varsity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  find your favorite UROP too, but it is also ok to defer to a convenient ... advantages of going to a diverse place like MIT is that you will find plenty of ... the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... Daughter holding a mystery box to collect candy – so cute but they are not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  worries, like finding a place to live in the fall. The fact that our REX ... activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private ... students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... income. I would bring nothing but a $20 bill with me to the supermarket to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my ... language we now all speak so naturally. A language that we must learn to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019