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• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo it, ruffle through my thoughts to find a thread I can tug on, but find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... version of it all. I think the theme of my first semester at MIT was defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  In for literal months. Does this sound dumb? That's because it is! I was so ... post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  LIFE - forget how it felt to receive that e-mail. If I go crazy and ... guess, demonstrate how serious I was about learning it. That idea hadn ... him. I would let him know how much time it took me, and how often I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  'm always wondering how this will play out in the long-term, in the future ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are ... that are happening to you, but how are you?" I didn't have a good answer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... college interviews. Nearly three years ago now...believe it or not, guys ... expertise. So here's the question: how often is there kitchen-contention? Is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn to answer them. From Amelia: What fields does course 9 include? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  Bridge--but it does mean that some poor person could be walking around ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  that difference - and yet how, through it all, I feel that I've been ... long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be ... better recently! I've told the story once before on the blogs of how I went

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... application work during winter break so I could devote my full attention to it ... that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... flesh desires, but they also longed to be with their wives. It made them ... Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  internships. It's a toss-up.) And you make a good impression. And are course 2, 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... that want other majors, but 2, 6, and 18 are the big three. This is how

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  no control over it. See, some guys just can't grow a beard. The best ... . Your beard growth very well could be accidental; the result of a few long nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  make it almost cost-free. After I explained the logistics to my parents, like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  long internal debate, I decided to drop it. I was nervous to email my ... , and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  interpretations and personal connection to the movie–how it perfectly encapsulates ... stays in its environment too long, I grew accustomed to the “role” and ... media room and watched the movie. He thought it was fine, but I naturally

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan ... couple of crepes. (Note: I wasn't letting it cook long enough. In the ... really fulfilled it, relying on my friends and my boyfriend, as well as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  at the sky and say, I know how the Earth and Moon dance and spin.  It ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... . It was raining, and the Charles River was a churning, thick gray

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Boston skyline are just so beautiful. It’s surprising just how much of MIT ... MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been much longer. Time doesn’t flow at its normal rate when everything around

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  beautiful," it was exactly his kind of place, too. Full of a very wholesome ... place. And how many days have I've sat until my butt was sore and finally given up at 11, or 1 or 2, with these daytime thoughts long gone from my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009