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• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To ... Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life by Jenny X. '13 Leaving a Mark by Kate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the ... that I have spoken to did not expect to join one when they first entered ... national stereotype, so we decided to give recruitment a try. Since the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  at MIT's Lean Advancement Initiative allowed me to pursue my research ... Europe (which I WILL DEFINITELY blog about later!), I have to go straight to exam revision (yes, over here people say revision, not review

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... out how much of our name to capitalize. We’re digging into market

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... to political identities, from cultural backgrounds to academic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  get something done. I am going to simply, gasps, fail. one of the most ... just took them. because I knew I wanted to take them more than I cared ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most ... , my host grandfather passed away, and two weeks ago, my cat was put to ... I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  " is that it fails to present a comprehensive[annotation note ... part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  adulting-oriented questions, because that's what I expected to learn, coming into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  . Since I was feeling kind of hosed, my initial plan was to cut our journey ... which stretches seven miles from the Boston Common all the way down to Franklin Park Zoo. Before this semester, I'd only been to the Public Garden

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally

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

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... day. Let's look back at February 13th and move on from there. Moving to ... . Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  . Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  . My job, at least initially, will be to experimentally characterize this ... introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  For my (maybe?) last blog post, I felt that it was only fitting to ... . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a ... display of my affections. I am incredibly grateful that I happened to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  : make mistakes, try everything you want to do, fail fast, and, most ... undergraduate student that works with MIT faculty to provide support and act as a ... go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later ... said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a ... thought I was travelling to Europe. I did not understand why, until I sat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I ... fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016