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• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  is a lecture about achieving childhood dreams. I don't know you may ... life is something everyone can relate to, and listening to one man look

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... money is just game mechanics–[annotation note="there’s definitely a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  in the recipient, cut the donor until all that's left is a square piece ... is a bit better -- just dealing with a lot of long waiting times ... people around me has saved me. the culture at my lab is what keeps me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school ... person for three years. There is a difference between leaving something

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  , dropping my A to a C. The sad part is that I still cared, even though it was ... were some exceptional circumstances that put MIT on Pass ... [annotation note="OX is a grade that you can get at the end of the semester if

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  us would eat it. We eat out rarely, and Indian and Asian food is ... think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... my apartment is toasty even though it’s only me at home right now, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  've taken so far, it is swim class that has made me feel the worse about ... be because of the sertraline. or both, or neither, and the thing is ... , and that the theme is of having my trust being broken. that all of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  ’s my body is a cage is, i think, supposed to be a song about insecurity. it opens my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one i ... the person is held back, partly, by their own mind. the first verse says

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... whispers to Mary Malone what she is supposed to do to help our heroes fulfill ... liked, he and a few friends (fellow MIT alum Dan Schultz, designer Margo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  Blender! - Blender is a 3D modeling software that you can use to model a lot ... this summer that the industry standard is Autodesk Maya...oops :P it ... conclusion is that i'm reasonably proud of myself. i have a few dumb creations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  Waiting is hard. Waiting is incredibly hard. Well, I guess that ... . I told myself I’d be fine. I went to decisions.mit.edu. There ... know that as well. A great deal is involved in the admissions process

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI ... specific requests from companies for MIT interns, which they forward along ... Japanese weather forecast is playing “A Whole New World” as the background

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  Scott Stephens ‘14, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT ... , number 15, is possibly the most important thing I will miss. It's the ... is the only day that I haven't been able to smile through every

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  MIT, my frequent flier account has already broken six figures in terms ... back to Boston to take a qualifying examination (unrelated to MIT) – the ... there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  parents moved to Baltimore when I was two, which is where I grew up. But now ... road that is somehow both Route 1 and Route 9 at the same time? I think ... , the regional EC chair, is simply a wonderful host. The Northern NJ

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  link my way). It's nice to read about MIT MMX like celebrities! Today, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  The 2014 Engineers were the winningest (real word!) MIT football team ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  completely out. Turns out Boston kids operate with MIT-level efficiency when candy is involved.The sidewalks were pure chaos — a blur of dinosaurs ... how it connects us. At MIT, we read applications from every kind of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  single moment when I regretted coming to MIT or wished I’d chosen a different college. I knew MIT was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up and that ... that’s a conversation for another time). But whatever it is that connects

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025