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• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  how to give an honest assessment of myself is probably one of the most ... how scholarly my future can be, or looking at internships to apply for ... ’ll let you know how that goes. I’d like to leave you with a quote that one

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  administrative role and a great opportunity to learn about how nonprofits operate ... up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... things are becoming clear to me. This time of year my life has long been

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It ... beginning of my sophomore year, I came onto EC thinking of how I wanted to ... the walls, who knew how to spin fire. Someone full of all the secrets of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... of knowing things was fairly simple. I either knew how to solve a ... , but I might have to search the manual for how to use the tool. I suppose

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  genius to teach me, how much I enjoyed hanging with my new fraternity brothers, and of course how awesome it has been being able to share my love ... "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  balls in the 4 bin). How many points is the robot supposed to score though ... . Two days left, a robot that didn't work, and no clue how to fix it. We ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  been bugging me with questions about ai policy (specifically, how to deal ... a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  pointers on how to find a date, things to discuss with your date, etc. They ... artistic, clearly, and I don’t see how she finds the time to sew dresses when ... ’t have prom or if you decided not to go, then you probably aren’t missing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute-to-minute I'm debating how I'll get everything done and what I'll do next to ... what outcomes? How can I change my parameters to ensure I get what I want

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  friend and drink tea or coffee or whatever. I don't super know how to end ... I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... post near you?) learning how to do poi MIT is no longer foriegn to ... , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  , but I’ve learned to control breakouts.  I wonder how much of life is ... to quantify, and I am frequently shocked at how much I am motivated by ... general. About aging, and feeling so… lost. About how difficult it can be to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I, and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007