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• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General Tso's chicken and my friends' 麻婆豆腐 ("ma po dou fu”) or my birthday party

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old ones, considering that the readings activate primarily my math ... . Professors who interpret it later in class amaze me. My favorite readings are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped me set my goals for my final year as an MIT undergraduate. It also helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake ... : (half-asleep, dazed, thinking oh! it must be my wake-up call!) mmmmmmmmm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer ... was scheduled to arrive Monday, and while I knew I would miss my ... importantly, no Reddit. This weekend, I said to myself, was bound to be my most

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  kept me from sleeping with my windows open at night, this I did mind. Two ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... . 24 hours pass. One day after my noise complaint. I wake up to a small

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two years. 1. The night before my final paper was due for 21L.009. This was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do ... my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I ... vaguely want to shake my fist at the sky and ask what I did wrong to deserve

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really ... 's and F's. And so I cursed computer science while hissing underneath my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  here's a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat ... disorder awareness week, so I wanted to take some time to share my story. Before I start I want to thank Cami Meija for hosting my guest post! This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... principal," my mom muttered under her breath. She turned to me. "You let me ... killed herself." My mom found out about this and decided to switch schools

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace ... tourists, and therefore, studying this career in my homeland is like making a cake withou flour. So, I had to apply to a college abroad, and MIT was my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my body. woo! with this cook-for-yourself constraint, my options were New

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never really fulfilled it, relying on my friends and my boyfriend, as well as a nice Snackpass ambassadorship, for sustenance. Now, living on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020