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• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  work on research for our project or plan and design a couple of things we ... 'm going to NR 8.01L. The final is tomorrow. I've touched a little bit of the ... intelligence. But that's hard. A lot of this is hard. And finally on this long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living place. One hour after I get there, when I sit down to work on some Problem ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  , MIT is going to split my mind open. My vague appreciation of how the ... ’t ultimately hinge on a letter of acceptance or rejection. Very soon, in a blog ... sense of happiness right now, the eighty-five or so Taylor Swift songs on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  of us that I want to solve before we launch in September ... students better understand the really-hard-to ... is something I've been thinking of as "MITAdmissions Labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  of my time". i could be getting new clothes, or working on my personal projects, of which there are dozens, or writing blog posts like this. i don ... 's basically been my life these past two months or so, which is why my blog posts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  blogging cohort left, which is completely insane. i think i used to post a ... ) "i tend to end my posts with a vague statement of hope, and this one is ... one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  ) stew And of course, students! Trying to float their boats and Will ... part of me REALLY misses MIT. But heyho two more weeks on this island ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  minutes and get more sleep? Even better. Getting Out of the MIT Bubble On a ... hard to feel like you’re making any progress at MIT. A lot of progress is ... that are hard to be proud of when they look like an almost-average on a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... .   Ahead on the left is the Media Lab. The arch just to the right of the ... running (5-ish am to 2-ish am on weekends or midnight-ish on weeknights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  opinions on the merits and flaws of the book. For instance, to his taste, my ... finding the station in the nick of time. I was supposed to be featured on a ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do ... . Happening all week, starting on Thursday, which is when I'll be answering ... conference [annotation note="in which the class of 2020 got on a boat and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To ... express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you ... I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so ... on, which was to only bring back seniors and have nearly everything ... 't wait to try working on some of them on the weekends and nights when I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  you like it or not. So I guess my piece of advice to you is not to make ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and subway station. Moral of the story: Life is different when you go to

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... extent you're looking to explore on your own.A team of admissions staff and ... guests.While you'll have lots of opportunities on Thursday and Friday to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  you to another EC who is available. Some of you may live in areas where ... interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006