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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the ... you really like at MIT, and if you have friends sticking around campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom ... the most important things in the world. Your parents' friends have used ... have a friend who received her acceptance to MIT while she was living in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  the classes, taught in lecture style. Many of my friends on Tetazoo did ... . Meanwhile, all your other friends are picking out their schedule for the fall ... know about your freshmen year.  I've learned a lot through my own

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  Saturday night before that, I had went with my friends to Harvard and ran ... January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  , I didn't really know. But here's what I did. My first plan of ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... sick hanging out with a sick friend and be unable to do that work. But on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  ="attachment_78730" align="aligncenter" width="225"] my friend described this as "rona ... . (I keep putting off my Art Scholar application, so alas, I did not have ... got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... it's kind of like I'm working with someone my age.) The 3D model is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  countless Facetime calls and study breaks.  To my friends at MIT and beyond ... -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I ... . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  perfectionists, at least a little bit. A quick survey of my friends suggested that my perfectionist tendencies are probably more pronounced than average ... high standards for my work, despite often not meeting them. I hate

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video ... scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise, alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my ... 's not free though"]assets for a game![/annotation]. it's been on my list

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to ... from me. So anyway, there’s my first compelling reason to come to MIT

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  into my gears of Decision Making. A friend, desperate to see each and ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... decided that MIT was the place for me, I spent my weekend traversing the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  miss corn mazes. I miss my family. I miss my friends. Luckily my ... Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence ... time...no pressure" text from my dad. See, I had all these awesome blog

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  optimism, I turned to the Athena gods. My awesome friend Phil '07 taught me ... , and I diligently take pages of notes each class to supplement my reading comprehension. All good, right? Not last Tuesday, when I left my copy of Ulysses

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... - no breakfast from mom in the morning - managing my own money - no ... from suburbia to an urban city - doing my own laundry - no car Now while

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a ... “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  my major, my classes, my friends. i am inevitably tired most days, but ... scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete ... disintegrates into Juans upon Juans. I was then shown my quarters for the next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019