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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  ... Got to learn how to drive stick-shift: Got to stand next to some big ... email to Ben Jones: ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:56 -0400 ... though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  the same class and left to think about how our fates were still unknown ... the phone over to my mom, because he didn't seem to know how to handle a ... would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... map and realize how absurd that is. Schrodinger's train, perhaps? And now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  's summaries to see how the readers and selection committee arrived at their ... described this as "unaccountably low." Accountable to whom?!? This is how MIT ... from the international mail's speed, but due to the very poor mail system

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... still terrified of running meetings, still unsure about how to create an ... 's interests. How do we make sure people are excited to learn their music? How do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  this time as Josh taught us how to use the CNC. Its blades are enclosed ... in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer—how ... ability to push through difficult semesters, that I feel more comfortable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  want to learn how to make pretty websites :^) More blogs coming soon ... backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house ... side project where they want to create an auto turret with a nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  Studies, visited the class to show everyone how to make a German apple cake ... COVID-19 Panel We learned about how culture affects responses to the ... semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... understand my emotions and needs better.  I’ve learned how to deal with ... people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  primarily use. it's an indispensable way to quickly see how your schedules ... for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... -and-hopefully-improved-but-probably-not-yet courseroad 2.0, successor to blogger danny b.d. '15's courseroad which has many

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  , just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little ... ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 ... years, we, as MIT staff, have come to know and work with so many of them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... . Was a chapter editor for How to GAMIT. Wrote an article for Voodoo. Am

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  must find Tim. 8. Learn how to walk better on ice. Simple enough... I ... back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013