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• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... to, nobody wanted to interview me. Internally, I knew I’d find some way ... November night. One was to be the first security engineer at a small company

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  another, trying to find a conversation i can relate to, or even one i felt ... one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... chancellor speak, seen the president dance, witnessed a hack, listened to a ... today at 5:30, I’m going to find reasons to miss my train home and linger

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's incoming class*, I started to compile a list of memorable ... 's debate at MIT is worth a blog post in itself. Or six. The best thing to do ... , unless you can throw a stone all the way to the Boston University vicinity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  : "Don't you think it's time to leave MIT behind?" A question I know many ... Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  material and concepts. I can always go back to a book to find an equation ... !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... hitting refresh to find out their decision. The tables turn again--once we've admitted a class of students, we begin to court them once more. Shiny tubes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15, wrote that prodigious children need to develop a "reasonably thick skin" - to feel they aren't demonized and will find a niche, but not to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  of my blogtastic tenure, you may find that I tend to describe concepts ... collections of squiggly pencil lines. I won't lie: I'm going to be spending a ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  the most important choice of all. You have to find a way to let go of ... soul returned to us in the bottom of a cup of tea, to find myself lost in ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and ... , but suggested that they might dare to have a sense of humor - or

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  would be able to find a way around this stone, when suddenly - the second ... problem, and find a new way in getting to where you want to be. It is true ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films. On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  strongly urge the president and Congress to find a path that better serves us ... urge Trump and the Congress to find a sound, stable legislative path to ... openness to talent, and a long tradition of national service — I believe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... classroom The most garden-variety way to ask for help is to find another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  possible to impress your professor while asking a question they might find ... an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... date was pushed back a week this year due to a late Labor Day; to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a ... , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  computer graphics, we were able to find a supervisor that was likewise so ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  to be involved in all of them, short of finding a way to clone myself ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011