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• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... . These goals normally fall under the categories of work, self

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  I’ve kept an extensive weekly journal since early February as part of ... spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  spirit of last year's post, i'll start this one off with a list of all the ... listened to and i like, but i'm not sure as to which of my carefully curated playlists i should add them to yet. most of it is trash indie that i'm not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty ... religious ceremonies, different in that the population of the former is ... , difficult to sing, requiring of the vocalist loud, straining pitches to match

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary ... , which as you can imagine costs a heck of a lot. Having a local regional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  States of America three years ago. Packed all my belongings into four ... . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... then, I’d only seen America through the lens of blockbuster Hollywood

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... 't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends ... Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... , an explosion of water, and rock, and steam, and dust, and ash. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011 ... reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so ... up with folks from MIT Comms, who were leading the redesign of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea. Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010