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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  baseball games. (This usually involves mocking the actual announcers for ... entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  academic masochist. Wait, what's that? You like doing all that work for ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of the game that'll shine through anyway. We're not kidding. I got pretty

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  way of weighing which one would be better for me. On one hand, I had the job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an ... would have time to write, read, play music, be with myself, and be with a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... 't come out for another 9 minutes-- no 8 minutes now. But, out of morbid ... Another Believer by Rufus Wainwright begins to play in the background

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of ... intimidating. I [annotation note='i thought people were saying “die grass“ for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who ... band-aid of sorts for students, as they got beaten and battered during ... rest but instead filled with playing catch up. Professors have been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... the same lecture, but if I sit in office hours for enough time, it ... year, registration for this class is lotteried probably because Professor

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  guys come out for the parades: That's a pirate ship in downtown ... unsuspecting passersby of his beer and chips, and smile for pictures. So if the ... makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  months, Santa isn't real, and eating ice cream and shredded cheese for ... 'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a ... even growing a beard at that time, and yeah, we probably paid more for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  , you’re dancing awfully close to Jimmy...”) Have no fear, for if you come ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... few months of MIT are tough for most seniors – we are torn between our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  , and you’re trying to play sports/look for internships/have friends ... these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course ... velocity of something as it moves for a set amount of time. You went for a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  felt like i would burst with joy whenever i talked about it. i play the ... sometimes i stare at my planner and the way it stretches on for another month ... balking halfway, who can actually focus for long periods of time, who eats

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... school to apply to early when’s Halloween? I’m too old for trick ... admissions interviews because it’s the truth. I genuinely want to go, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  sense than I do, but playing with it yourself makes even more sense ... graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find ... This morning, desperately procrastinating studying for a 6.042 midterm

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... great time playing again. DNA This Sunday was the 10th anniversary of ... for another event, but it was really awesome talking to prefrosh who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... Massachusetts Avenue than I have for a while. I saw some really pretty sights ... is an orchestra playing pieces from Fantasia in early May at the hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way ... realizes it's just snow! Steve '12 and Peter '13 struggle to play ... ... ...and is successful. Steve is stoked for his pending relationship

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  beat for the song while I played the piano and sang. The video took the ... most creative stories I've heard. Just gotta share this. :) "MIT, for ... found out, I literally screamed while jumping up and down for a good

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  to CPW if you can! It played a huge role last year in my final decision to attend MIT. Do people even have time for extracurriculars ... 't remember...) are offered for anyone who wants to place out of introductory

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010