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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Public Policy." I was like "wow, thanks guys, for announcing to the entire ... ending!) Anyway, the best advice I have for you is to get really excited ... where you go) and to keep your eye on Matt's and Ben's blog for more info

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  ) and it’s bound to be a good show. For me, it’s wonderful how easy it is ... of trying to get student rush tickets for Wicked (the untold story of ... touch of procrastination, we decided to go for it on Wednesday. Because

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading ... , required to take 8 PE points. A PE class, which meets for about a month, is ... weighted, so even though my GPA appears to be absurdly high, it's not. For

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best ... how my face was doing. My mother called to tell me to be more alert (I ... with my sister to a stand-up comedy show called Comedy for a Cause, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... 'd want to go somewhere else for graduate school. Your research interests ... to get into MIT for graduate school. Departments which don't accept MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  my little sister will inspire me to go to more. I’ve found outlets for ... to some and hover on the fringes of others, and how there are always more to connect to. I remember years ago feeling a sort of nostalgia for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  's ok to get a table for one. Make time for self-care. It goes a long way. The 14K Rose Gold Dress up for exams. It does wonders to your self ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... class relevant to students' daily lives, and (b) how MIT policy affects ... satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  of Cambridge St. were blocked off for vendors to grill and smoke their ... protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ... Star Market haul in the freezer, I rushed to office hours for [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and ... apprehensive to go back for Junior year because I felt like I'd regressed from ... Gregor-specific term for a floor) and got closer to the people I lived with. My interest

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult ... butter, led to me being nicknamed after a sandwich for several weeks. Then ... the process, breaking it down to how it works, and how to do it to get

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  going to tell you how to spend your weekends, but do be sure to spend at ... ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  poetry in Spanish, and learning how to code intelligent systems. It has ... them I have to play videogames for a couple hours, read a book, and go to ... to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... decided to take it, as I got a 5 on the AP Bio exam and got credit for the ... On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  overshot the :35 that I was going for, and I was too impatient to go back and ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... :00 lecture to begin for special relativity, and then I head to that. 3

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  I’d previously had for the subject. It was partly due to my disliking ... the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the ... -immigrant visa for a temporary stay. Per federal regulations, if I want to work off

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  exhilarating. And because no amount of words can do justice to just how great it ... taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the ... sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  volunteers running around teaching people how to save a life. The Fray couldn ... how people can continue to believe that MIT students are completely one-dimensional, unhappy geeks who have no idea how to interact socially. We do other things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007