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• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  new york, which i was interested in because most of my friends will be ... main downsides were a) they’re in-person in sf and almost all my friends ... some of my ai research friends did not think it was promising c) i felt a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... Bank, where I held a brain in my hands and then watched a cutting. It was ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  pester my friends into taking the stairs around campus with me and get ... – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  Providence, I hung out with my high school friend who now attends art school. I ... Gorgeous. "I'm in a touchy feely, sad boi hours kinda mood," I told my friend ... A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  name is FINAL FANTASY 7. I LOVE this game. It has been my guiding beacon ... have stayed with me through rougher periods in my life. I can't really qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  meticulously organised (both my dorm room and my room back home would probably ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... most drastic decision I’ve made, ever. Saying goodbye to my cat and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... much of my life has been overhauled this past year that it feels like I ... very impatient second-semester senior who had just finished all my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ="91151" image3="91148" image4="91159" /] August.  I remember my friend Isabella ... ="91184" image3="91179" /] Four days later, my friend Calton invites me on a bike ... ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  hours a week at an apartment with my friends. So...I don't take these ... living with my friends than living at home. I'm not lonely at all, for one ... with. I felt wonderful after catching up with my friends a few times a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  frequent collaborator was my friend Ethan M. '20, who did some excellent tape ... with my friends at graduation. [carousel image1="53547" image2 ... Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  : I didn’t go to CPW, but from my experiences at MIT and freshman REX ... wrong) Do (most of) the things Get all the swags Make new friends ... : nevertheless, it’s important to go out, explore, try and make new friends, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... ://www.xobni.com/) which was founded by my friend, Adam Smith. They got their start through

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  moments where I realized that unlike some of my friends, I am still not ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... my life time. These moments in my life are not extreme in the sense

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  . A LOT of my friends firespin, and it looks so cool, and ahh I wish I ... I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  much can change in that four-year gap. The summer before my senior year ... .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to ... leadership experience on my resume, and I didn't want to go anywhere north of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter ... things that you need to know about me before I continue. I lost my birth ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  so scared? One of my premed friends (Ahmed, an ol' blogger alum who ... one of my good friends at Wellesley College told me a year ago. Grades ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... PTA sponsored an "Author Day" at my school. They invited a children ... "They Came From Center Field," and it's about this group of friends who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  calculus p-set, and turned it in after having lunch with a friend. After my ... My high school academic life was by no means a cruise through ... hours outside my normal classes dealing with things like geometric

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013