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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  of my friends, struggled to distill our experiences into helpful words ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... on my email and read some articles and flipped through the first

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... my riddle: It takes about 8000 engineers to change a (metaphorical

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . "Wait...beat! That's it!" I called my friend David - a man so metal, he ... performed her valedictory speech with her friend and salutatorian Sameer in a ... guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic bomb. We'd play death

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things have been going pretty well—my first week flew by since i had frontloaded

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  called Stripe, founded by some of my MIT friends during a summer in which I ... Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  decision that requires self-reflection. Some of my friends have said they ... This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT ... ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  was talking about her with my friend Rui and she told me how Carly came ... Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  friends. if i knew this i would have done that i should have done that oh my ... , especially for people who have ambitious bucket lists, like one of my friends ... ) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  moved into a house off campus with some older friends from my dorm who ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a ... I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has ... instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  Yesterday, a prefrosh friend of mine sent me this Facebook message: I ... about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I ... blogs, but I don't want to ruin someone else's chances if my applying isn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  running errands and hanging out with friends and my nights at parties or the ... before. Reason #2: one of my upperclassman friends said it was an easy A ... are, because first semester freshman year is a ball. My awesome pre

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  . I’m friends with the ghost of an IKEA instruction manual. My friends make me pancakes. My friends go to sevlev. My friends go to locksport. My ... and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  with my friend Martin, who is natively bilingual, to make sure I wasn ... almost the same thing. "What do you think of my friend?" "Me cae bien" = I ... clothing doesn't fit(stay) me!" My friend: "Is it running away from you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  glory to Ina Garten! I found out sometime last year that my friend Dugan ... basically every moment of every single day of my life, and spent every mile of my marathon training basically just dreaming about what I would say to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  room full of my friends. I do not dream of writing, don’t grasp for the ... .  And I’m happy. I love my friends. I love learning and in time I ... . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... excited about. - One of my close friends just pledged to Phi Delta Theta ... exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... ="and my friends and family"]myself[/annotation] that I was going to run a ... happening. My friend, Paul I. ‘24 recently told me that I don’t keep my word

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  friends. It was definitely one of the highlights of my summer in Virginia ... , or gifting presents to my friends!   My 2021 Resolutions ... hollow since I only have two grades that count toward my GPA (physics and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  work on a project and actually *make* a game with my friends - i always ... , and i used to sing New Math with my friend at every math meet we went to ... sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019