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• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  blogging before and I think I have a great opportunity. My fraternity, Phi ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... with my classmates was built around highly specific traits. Our head boy ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog ... , why it bounced around and persisted in my head, fermenting and ripening ... June. Teachers from my high school showed up with students. My friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... was still open so that I could give them my MIT Reply Form, and wait ... work on you this weekend." Well, right he was. When Matt Mcgann saw my

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... . But now, it's all almost over. I finished all my finals (passing them is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best ... just wondering, since i had my sister do me a favour by filling out the technical details in the MIT admission form (like my achievements etc.) would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment,[/annotation] or because my standards for “slept well” are incredibly low. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  /or procrastinating. Just a few days ago, I beat my all-time record for cutting it close ... ’m efficient at my work, I can achieve quite a bit if I manage my time well. That ... from 0%"]going to bed with 20% of my planned work done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes ... . I imagine my head contained a lot of static. If this were a lifestyle ... 2="84717" image3="84696" /] Catalina State Park (ft my mother) I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... . That’s been something eating away at me lately whenever I think about my ... 't major in something I had prior knowledge in, compared to my pitiful

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  metaphor will come through but this is the set up. When I was at my most ... . When I brought this up with my friend, he said (understandably) "what the ... dimensional. So when I was at my most existential, I worried that there might be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  OH MY GOD IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR CPW!!!! Class of '26, we cannot wait to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... CPWs in my freshman and sophomore years, but instead I was running weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  sometime between smashing fruits with baseball bats and watching my friends dye their hair. It sounded up my alley; I love writing, and this would ... classrooms around campus. She asked for my ideas. Something deep? I suggested

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my ... of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe ... eventually my advisor sits me down and says, “Amber, you have not completed sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  plants. I'm not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former ... could see from my bedroom while I read applications. After he moved out ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ’ve found that so much of my learning has come outside of classes, including ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I ... of the sales team. Suddenly, my work load doubled. My list of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... formative in establishing my interest in preserving student culture across MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020