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• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... , is a huge bubble that's easy to lock yourself into - it's hard to find the time to give yourself a chance to breathe once in a while, to be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... . In three weeks, I will need to declare a (yet nonexistent) major. I ... is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  that spiky people tended to interact with others in a logical and ... in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each other. everyone expects their blades to collide in midair, but instead

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to ... school are getting married. It's a weird thing to be a female scientist in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  ! Unfortunately, when you put in enough work to make a bomb calorimeter stop being a ... really like having a third language to communicate in: it’s cool thinking ... myself that I don’t want to lock myself in a little bubble of pipettes that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  far future; reading how the world was going to change in a thousand ... , and in a couple seconds i had run into it—i was in the void. i tried to ... ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I ... history, with a supplemental education in how to pay bills, how to split ... scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what ... technology to market. My experience with GEL is limited to a guest lecture in ... Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big ... being said, there is a 'cream rising to the top' phenomenon in public ... unique culture and your daughter needs to find out what they are in order

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  'm motivated to do at the moment. But half the time I give up and take a nap in ... . Scheduling's a nightmare, and I often can't find a time to PSET together with ... ’m writing this of course. But I can’t find the motivation to study. The

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the ... school in the fall. Anyways, remember to reminisce, even in something that ... Gathering). President Reif then gave a speech cleverly in the format of an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  all up until I got to paint a mural and join Borderline’s exec board in ... Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  what does the end of high school mean, for you? the days pass so slow; the months pass so fast

  

  to whom it may concern: two years ago, you pushed open a metal gate in a fence that led to a parking lot. you stumble a bit stepping down ... pushed open a metal gate in a fence on the way to your high school

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • June 10, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  was a medical scribe, which meant I followed the doctors in to the ER ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework

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

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this ... a crème of the crop Venture Capitalist in Silicon Valley to expand and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005