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• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  worthlessness. It scared me - it still does, when I think back on it. A fragment ... ’t take long for someone to point it out. One night, as I sat in my corner ... being, but it’s true. And I’ve been happy, no matter how much my life was

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... me down by telling me just how unoriginal it was. It turns out we were ... story shows something about who you are, and how it relates back to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  realize how strange this phenomenon is because it’s just oddly important to ... how [annotation note="but now it takes every ounce of willpower in my ... are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  college will most definitely not get you through it. And being rejected does ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  picture was taken a long time ago by my roommate Jeanne '13; while it accurately demonstrates the size of our room, it does not provide a faithful ... accompanied by a frustrating mass of release forms. Regardless, it is my hope

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  plan. Check out my old entry on it here. As Melis said, almost everybody ... a million dollars. But instead I'm posting it here because I wanted to ... their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  : Which class have you taken (difficulty level), GPA (does it match up with ... , and typically when I sit through one I'll live blog about it. So here we go! Right now I'm just waiting for it to start, people are all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  determines who has what authority? How is what Batman does different from ... can think of is 6.08. Now read that again. How is it that I have taken ... it teaches legitimate computer science work and fields, and does so in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... they're shared between many other Philippine languages, so I think it ... acronym for Original Pilipino Music. It's a catchall term for Philippine pop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... ? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would never happen, but as I've just very recently learned, it does indeed ... 's pretty cool. That's probably an understatement, actually. It's insanely

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... is good. It deserves fuel. It does not deserve the extremes of poor ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... , but 8 is too late. 7:45 usually does the trick setting one alarm never ... same thing for lunch and dinner every day does, in fact, get boring

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  popular venues for such events is the Hatch Shell. Not only does the Hatch Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... sponsored by a local radio station. It's like a drive-in without the car

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  the summer - I asked someone this once and he mentioned how when it gets ... scores get first picking? Is it okay as long as I am in your range?" It ... made me think how strange it was that people expect those sort of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  , fewer classes allow equation sheets, so I started writing it on my hand ... seemed to think it was kind of pathetic, actually.) I even took to writing ... week (I believe it was while planning for CPW last year, and around the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  your roommate does wonders. Or that it’s fine to go from talking about ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  last-minute answers. It's fashionable here to loudly announce your impending doom -- you know, it's bad luck to say good luck on opening night ... . "How about you take his 16.05 exam and he can take your 2.005 one?" "Okay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006