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• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  One. Two weeks ago my phone's charger suddenly stopped working. I ... next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book ... out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  much can change in that four-year gap. The summer before my senior year ... .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to ... leadership experience on my resume, and I didn't want to go anywhere north of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... my last penultimate day did not end until 4:05 am, courtesy of some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter ... things that you need to know about me before I continue. I lost my birth ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my ... . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use ... search for them in my notes and instantly see every book, article, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and ... was putting together my Freshman Spring schedule on the wonderful planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you ... .13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... PTA sponsored an "Author Day" at my school. They invited a children ... makes you feel really, really dumb. Some logical portion of my brain knows

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my application work during winter break so I could devote my full attention to it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  [caption id="attachment_110809" align="aligncenter" width="427"] right before battle with my cheering squad + diabolical swim cap goggles combo[/caption] [caption id="attachment_110811" align="aligncenter" width

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has ... Fahrenheit. Still, it's my first summer spent almost completely in New England ... : Interning: In January of this year, my summer internship decisions came down

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from ... semester. Made art: over the summer, my internship held a poster

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  things, get upset when things don't go my way, or when things or people ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is ... want to be. I’ve always struggled with how I should fit Russia into my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I ... friends who would totally enjoy science bowl. I rounded up a handful of my ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... , someday. I set out feeling that a year was not enough, but my mindset ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  or people who resembled blobs because I forgot to wear my glasses ... accomplish this year: Cherish my close friendships. I entered MIT in September 2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l ... . Nothing significant had changed in my diet, sleep schedule, or lifestyle ... stressed now than I had been the past 3.5 years. My body was forcing me to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my ... impressions, my day to day schedule, and things like that. I want to do at least two to three more posts going into more detail about my time abroad

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019