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• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  Emergency Department asking for more pain-killers, the middle-aged woman ... attachment to the Intensive Care Unit. I did not blame God for my health crisis ... interpretations of the world. As John Whitehorn writes in Education For Uncertainty

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  still believe there is hope for us. the friends i have made and kept, in ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a ... the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think ... , then gone back and churned out a pset. The pset was for 18 ... essays on Chicano [annotation note = "plug for 21H.270, Latinx In the Age

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those ... , rather than the next step. That's all for now. I hope everyone has a Merry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  when I walk in (it’s the same every time). Thank you, India Pavilion, for ... much at stake. There is no room for error, not if I hope to achieve even ... -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... home for holidays with the family, and New Year's Eve with old MIT ... for the first week of MIT's famed Independent Activities Period (IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  we go! Psets are an abbreviation for"Problem Sets", which is the ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... busy receiving the Nobel Prize in Mathematics for being so right about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... incredible experiences of my life and I cannot WAIT for the next one. [caption ... since writing is fun and writing about meaningful parts of the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for ... aches. My legs were so sore that I didn't get out of bed for the rest of ... professor excused me from quizzes and attendance scores for all the days I was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  integrate the freshmen girls onto the floor is getting dressed up and going to ... difficult to remember, but i'm the type of person who can't not prepare for ... , Mocha Moves, prepares for our annual show, which is held in early February

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  MIT, the more I was certain that MIT is the perfect fit for me. This ... exciting. I toured the actual laboratory, how cool is that? I even got all of ... thrilling. The opportunities seemed endless, and for that, I knew at this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Component -- What is something you do purely for the fun of it?: They look for ... before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we ... , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  Sharp, the one who won the Nobel for discovering introns and exons??" Yes ... their kids, but his Nobel is kind of off in the corner of his office. He ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  community is amazing (stay tuned for a post about that in the next few weeks ... 's crazy how well this schedule actually works for me. The switch from 18 ... of him is because of his power (spoiler, for anyone who hasn't seen

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his ... complicated: Heh. This one is sold at the end of every fall and spring by ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  ? But every place is the same." At the time, I didn't understand what he ... shift in priorities, but I found myself yearning for the familiar ... . Perhaps what I'm truly afraid of is that I'm no longer full of the bright

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  the bombings, and even organizing a breakfast for the campus police this ... It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... alas, for whatever reason, the cash only soda machine in building 66 didn ... Thursday night, in lieu of prepping for the Career Fair, a group of friends

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... music tastes as we waited for exposures in the tiny, dark observatory in ... , except one where the characters also tracked asteroids across the sky for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025