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• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  (cats courtesy of my friend Alison) The cats are simultaneously dark and ... slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... , man), the blogs were my first window into MIT - my first glimpse into

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... between you and me is about 10^-7 newtons. Let's be friends!" Okay, no really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... everyone around me is stressed and apprehensive - sorry, friends. But really ... the top of my list. Expectations of parents. What a struggle. Given MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  ), Grupo BBVA (Spain), IFMR (India), King-eClient (Spain), My Gengo ... from field observations will be crucial for my own future research. I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it to my first class at 10:00, that's a pretty big switch. Just pointing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... asks, "My higher education advisor told me that my school can submit some ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  took excursions outside the city. I would be in a group with my friends ... restaurant with my friends or colleagues, the servers would ask the man nearest ... -hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic that my summer was so stress-free but that my life was so disrupted

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  Silence. Stillness. As I lay on my side, feet curled into my chest, the only sounds I could hear were my rhythmic breathing, my steady heart beat, and a high-pitched beep every two seconds. My sheets were warm and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i'll love my friends, try new things, and get a little silly with it ... mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it's been almost ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... , I've decided to dedicate my undergraduate studies towards artificial ... consistently meet up with my former roomie Nora, so psetting for this class

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center reciting my spiel for insert-club-here and i'm running the aquarium

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  experience and it's absolutely wild. Me and six other friends from my living ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my closest friends is more fun than I could've imagined. We're all equal

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  upperclassmen. So I asked some of my closest friends who were graduating if they ... different screens did wonders for my productivity. I wish someone had told me ... your original plan. Some of my most transformative and eye

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... to interview a friend, a faculty member, President Reif, Barack Obama

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  there. It was my home. And before moving into my temp dorm as a freshman ... experience if you aren't sleep-deprived. But you don't have to take my word ... nowadays. (Seriously – I don't know what goes on outside of my office. Is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  literature available through the Gutenberg press with my friend Michelle. Ok ... the birthplace of those inventions. My friend Charles transformed a ... readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  Four. Recently, after I'd learned that several of my friends were also ... out in my sophomore year. This way, I know I and my friends can ... you ask. I really found out about filk music through my addiction to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009