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• 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
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My ... on the 15th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My ... your MyMIT password, you may use our automated system to reset it. Simply

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  tips and tricks. But here go my own: sidenote: i’m not sure if i’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... a merino headband under my headscarf. It does an excellent job of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall, my dorm, and the opportunities I got as a rare HASS major. I stayed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was ... soon my room was home again. and it's quiet, classes starting up and ... going to classes. my a cappella group recruited three new members. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my ... . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you ... .mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this ... ;ve forgotten your MyMIT password, you may use our automated system to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016