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• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can ... I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  , and oftentimes even while doing [annotation note="I can only do this if ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this ... ever again! As a side benefit of obsessively using Libby, I can go into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  or recitation This is one of the few I can use as a general note of ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get ... player has a built-in playback speed adjuster. That means that I can listen ... take away from this? Certainly not that I can afford to skip classes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  nothing. It's beautiful and simple and easy and I can't believe it has taken ... 't think about passage of time, so that I can savor it more deeply. ... I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... should have started this earlier. 3:30am. I can’t think anymore. Time ... , and there’s no wifi either. I can’t call an Uber. I can’t get back to my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  ) So that's my week. I need to get back to 2.001 now, hopefully I can ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  being contacted by a wireless host called MCDONALDS. Yeah, I can't really ... Do. I can't even process this anymore. Anyway, five minutes later I ... December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Bioethics (24.06) my freshman spring and it was okay. I'm doing anything I can ... you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up ... schools. I want to lay out some basics about what you might want or need to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a ... I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  can apply. right after i get my scores? i have 2 more years in ... A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  another group entered wearing full Native American tribal regalia. I can ... with new giant robots fighting. Wow, it's been a while! Wow, I've been ... memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... causes where I can make a difference. While in grad school at UD I had the ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  , about who I can be. But I'm grateful that for the indefinite future I ... in general have also just strained. I feel like I can't talk to people ... 92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  pursue paths where my best qualities don’t get a chance to shine. I can ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the tiniest bit, I can take it with me. [caption id="attachment_74367" align ... missed. I can't explain it in words, but I feel my self echo back an image

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  I can’t really understand other people. I can imagine how they might be feeling, but I can’t really share that emotion, or find the right ... characters who are not very similar to myself. I mean, how can you write

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022