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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... didn't want to be the guy who inquired about GPAs, or put my resume or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in ... Friday: GEL, 7.03, UROP, Clarinet Lesson, find food to eat (my frat has a ... may be sleeping) Sunday: UROP, Meetings at The Tech, house meeting at my

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  ! - FYI, the line "my academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans ... , cook with my team-mates, serve dinner at 6:15pm sharp, eat, then clean up ... . Here's what my menu was, in case you're curious (note that it's not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  governing factors to guide my list-making besides "I'm just going to list a ... come up with my Elizabeth's Totally Objective Song Summerness Equation ... " by Beirut: This is by far my favorite song that I've been listening to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... copious amounts of work I have to complete. I am thoroughly enjoying my ... have reached the point in my major where I am taking classes that are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email ... can feel my youth dripping away, slowly, like melting bananas. 10:30 pm ... typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly ... something (Look, don’t even try to understand my deepest, darkest musings

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out ... was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... my father has a hard time letting things go, and that the indigestion

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  and boy are my arms tired." (rim shot) But seriously, I have been on the ... that my seat could be used as a floatation device even though the entire ... Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I ... Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math ... , yeah? I'm Lynn. What's your name?" Sam: "Oh, nice to meet you. My name ... that is my superhero origin story. Anyway, I had a really, really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  of the others, like daydreaming and doomscrolling. I try to minimize my ... others. In my playthrough, I have optimized for skills and exp and maintaining my HP and MP at a level just high enough to not incur too many

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and ... freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  from my first sunday roast with some grad school friends and ... interesting or would make a difference in the world, things in my personal life ... part of my research giving them more math materials. i've worked with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  quest my sophomore year to [annotation note="actually I think each ... Bowie, a postdoc at my lab suggested. Another postdoc brought up a video game character I had never heard of. “Oh my god, you actually made Harry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  and can you follow back 'cause it's my birthday?" No one cares what I ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 ... my trip to Switzerland, and it was a whole year ago. The Highline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... area, to live with my five friends. We moved not for any job ... were originally supposed to move to my uncle's house upon arrival on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018