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• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... someone. Now, it's good to stay in contact with your close friends from

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door ... heard from my friends was around ten minutes, almost all of which was ... bad. Well, it really wasn’t. During my lunch break, I went to Walker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  My Freshman Pre-Orientation Program (FPOP), Discover Exercise and ... , but he was too late. On my first day at MIT, I talked to my roommate ... stayed up in my life (with the exception of New Year’s Eve in Ukraine and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly ... Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT ... composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  think the BSO gives students shoddy seats. Not so, jaded reader; my friend ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... , my interest in comparing mediums had evaporated to the point where I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  and following my instincts, I feel like I haven't even tapped into what ... introduced to the possibilities that pursuing art could give me.  Before my ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  food on campus. Spend the rest of my Saturday hanging out with friends ... painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18 ... repeat in my head for a week already. As the song is less than two minutes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  This past Sunday night, my friend Hanna '10 and I did our first radio ... side and became a techie. (Power tools are my friend.) This has carried ... anything to do but yell, "OH MY GOD WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT NOW

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  musical-theater oriented music and received the Emerson Scholarship. My friend Kenny '06 got the scholarship after singing "Razzle Dazzle" from ... much. I took a few my Freshman year from one of the less notable (but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn ... graduation was pretty painless. My family doesn't have "roots" anywhere we've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  ='With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , which has given me some of my fondest memories and closest friends ... of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... logistics are friend meetups and family gatherings—the goodbyes, but not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  ’m pretty excited for this summer. A lot of my friends are on campus, and I ... past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded schedule, pretty much every upperclassman I know (as well as my advisor) told

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  session: Here's Julia, with my longtime friend (we were fellow campers at ... glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  watching everyone else on my floor leave MIT forever and their rooms get scrubbed clean by Rosa, our friendly Portuguese cleaning assistant. Second, my parents are here this weekend, and we've started packing up my room

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  to see my friends tonight! It’s been a wild eighty hours, but I’m glad ... friends here; one, [annotation note="hi Matthew :D"]my current roommate ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  OH GOD THEY WERE TINY) - one of my friends left his car window open and ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  wick has ran out? I'm not sure what to do. I ask my friends, "What can I ... -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... yet. Because lately I've felt as if I'm running out of time. The way my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022