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• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... ’s inevitable. Unfortunately, the naive prefrosh I was didn’t know this and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most innovative and progressive universities in the world and I always have loved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry. This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  you at MIT?"). But, I do feel that the HASS department is MIT's hidden ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in/visiting the dorms?" I found the official policy here. Students are allowed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world. Why not call Course 9 'Biology'? Why not go the full distance and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  the whole admissions experience more fulfilling for everyone involved - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing ever, but I think the thing that's holding me back is just how much I ... pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  out Bryan's latest post) Rushil wrote, "I have a question regarding the ... the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish grey light hung on the ceiling ... thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached ... :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  disk drive, and the little safety lock clip thing has somehow been broken off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around ... duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my ... days by the number of applications read during the Early Action cycle ... . Daylight would fade around 4 PM (perhaps the worst aspect of living at the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP ... .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... "] Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave" - Beaded Reproduction[/caption] A quick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school, with ... . I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  until I collapsed under the pressure had I not gotten an MIT acceptance letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024