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• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  , had mostly Asian friends, and people at my high school routinely forgot ... reflective” today until receiving an email from a friend just now sharing her ... out at my church at home in Denver, Colorado. That church and St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I don't write this entry now, when I have so much time on my hands, this ... are), but rather I'll base everything on my own personal opinions and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  my friends," I told my coworkers. "But . . . yeah. Maybe not this time ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to ... my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  that require action on my part"]zero[/annotation] responsibilities at MIT for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early-mid-late-semester Stress that normally [annotation note="I really need to work on my posture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  become my friends. There are, incidentally, a lot of current MIT ... I know I just wrote an entry about grad school interviews, but my ... a little more about the process that is consuming my life. Grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  the first time I’ve ever been in the UK. My journey involved three ... could’ve taken the bus, but I didn’t want to drag my luggage all over the ... leading up to my flight to London were hectic. I was graduating, so along

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  video on my friend Jovita L. '23, but she didn't want the video blasted on ... cried a little bit after catching up with so many of my friends from the ... shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... going wrong—I try my best to sit down, contemplate, and then write until I have arrived upon the actions I need to take to put my life back together

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  scent.~ My friend is a big fan of perfumes and she's been taking me to ... countries. I've had friends visit me from different MISTI cities and countries ... flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  my friends at home and I heard some cursing in the lab, so it might be ... happy about my living situation, mostly because I'm in the same apartment ... knife until my collarbone hurt. Jebby got stuck in the corner spending an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . Then my mentors. Then my best friend. Later that day, we got FroYo. When ... kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  you find on YouTube or HGTV. In the words of my friend Emma, "it's an adventure." And it certainly is. It feels like it's massaging Raymond and my ... cooker. Raymond then held the phone up to my face and said "This is the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red ... to.   ‘tis the damn season I'm stayin' at my parents' house ... always leads to you and my hometown The person who is second

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  food is good. This class is good. My friends are good. I usually take ... , whether that be my experience with the Internet, feedback I got from friends ... decisions. I always turn to my friends, family, and mentors for really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  going to be next week, and I'm excited to see my friends from CfH again ... .303/11.003: Methods of Policy Analysis. I need this class for my humanities ... Probability. I need this class for my major. On day 1, the professor said this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  somehow gotten some of my 2East friends to start playing with me. It's a ... Hello! Just giving a quick update on what's going on with my life ... break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , especially when so many of my friends ended up going. A particular quote of ... + years ago (12/13/14, actually, which is a cool date) about my MIT decision ... , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  my friends or on my own and stumble across new places. I like this ... the MIT experience unique. I've finally decided to get out my DSLR that has been sitting largely in its tote bag on my shelf because I wanted to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  , about a month after coming to MIT, my friend Hanna '10 and I started a ... described as "too goddamn independent" and my mother, much as I love her, was ... me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016