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• 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
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  a ton of fun, met my girlfriend and some of my best friends, and was ... took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy ... wrong with this path; through my extracurricular involvement in high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  %. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On my defeated march back to my dorm room, I run into a good friend of ... hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... go back to my room to throw on something warmer. I'm not entirely sure

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  value time with friends over getting a few extra points on my problem sets ... ’d last been home. This past Thanksgiving break, as I turned into my ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  friends. I spent most of my time studying or doing psets and projects. I ... when I found out I’d been selected. I thought “Wow, I can share my ... class this semester. Here’s a snapshot of my registration: 69 units is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  hard, I got into the school of my dreams, I made friends and yet, and yet ... most confident. You'll discover yourself. You'll finally make friends who ... all there is? Is this all I will be? I'm afraid that this is my peak

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  PMing my friend [annotation note="we share a lot of classes together ... : summer nights spent talking with Quinn, my friend from high school, staying ... exchanged Instagrams and it turns out she knows AnaMaria, my friend from ISEF

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... and e-mailed one of my best friends (and long-time pset buddy) telling ... stubborn (or too persistent*?) *I once asked a friend what distinguishes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013