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• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... up for a class because then you’re obligated to attend sessions and ... and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  : I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for ... was back to cramming for finals. I did have friends who came to visit Boston during two separate weekends, which made for some nice excuses to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  is that it's really too cold to go outside and play for any significant ... Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry ... year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some ... knew I had to blog it (if for no other reason but to poitn people here ... . Bush nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... than for students who choose not to interview. Also, get started on ... going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to ... was too scared to ask any MIT profs for favors (I am a huge chicken ... postdoc who called to offer me a job, and for whom I worked for ten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  Barker Library to write some field notes for my Global Health & ... 't really have time to study for. The website we were taking the quiz on ... mine. I don't really need to say anything for her to know that I have, in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I ... incredible and humbling opportunity to interview for MIT. Now, I'm not sure ... incredibly hard to get where you are. You've stayed up late for projects

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  other than my potential to do well at MIT. For a little while, I even ... to the edge For those of you who like numbers, this year, MIT admitted ... 've heard in a while, so for every person who got in, there had to be a reason

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  , so naturally the conversation turned to our plans for next year. Akhil ... , we're going to leave the rest of that thought for a later day. (If I ... , we're done with sentimentality for the day. Onward to more pressing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and ... by maybe three to five for all the companies you're interviewing for at ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  're full. (If you came here for tips on how to get into college, I'm sorry to ... the five of us, for a grand total of: This year turned out to be a ... . It also turned out to be a record for me, as I ate 11 scoops of ice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... house, looking for people to bother. I spot Noah in the basement. "What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  number for quick access to the frat van/car/bus (? looking at you here ... sense that I’d belong anywhere I wanted to, I thanked Kayle for the pep ... Habesha?” that seems to happen when any two Ethiopians meet for the first

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the ... third was to research ways to reduce emissions for a particular company ... trying to carb-load for the half marathon, Sunday morning. We revised our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... that fits the parameters for each portfolio type, I encourage you to ... perform music and would like to submit a portfolio for each. Since the Slide

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  itself can get. For the time that I've been a blogger, I got to be ... before coming to MIT was the for loop. When it got covered in the first ... despite the struggle, and thus I could have the patience to sit and code for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision ... presentation of the material. I did need to lecture for some of the time, which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the ... things. Here are some highlights. Learned how to weld for 4.314! We also ... former US Ambassador to Russia.   Got wet lab training for my UROP

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019