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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... played by accident in their lives. There's a lot of other good things Lewis ... game of life on the lowest difficulty setting there is. Other fortune

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  teachers was recently named New Jersey Teacher of the Year. Here's what the ... teach students the physics that I loved as well as the way of thinking ... State University of New York at Stony Brook where he earned his masters in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  have only one musical of acting experience; in no way do i feel like i ... those experiences; i sit on the other side of the judges' table, feeling ... new life since becoming a graduate student. my first year of undergrad

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how ... would be overhauling every aspect of my current life. On one hand, the idea of attending MIT was ridiculously exciting. But on the other hand, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  can add a new page by clicking on the symbol boxed in dotted green, and ... toolbar) and click on one of your objects. Hold shift to select multiple ... complicated.  Here's a good tutorial on it, but basically lines go through the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  [annotation note="except lecture"]everything happens so fast[/annotation] and that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... semester. my favorite part of being in SBC is going on coffee chats with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  reason and science also marked the creation of social Darwinism and new ... stability is key. Orgo has the glorious trifecta of a damn good lecturer, a ... ="which is a way of drawing cyclohexanes (ie carbon hexagons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good ... isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn ... with both of those happening at once than either of them happening on its

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Bowen, incredibly earnest and kind, and who took almost all of the (good ... This all took about an hour. Then, we would, depending on the size of the ... ; View Larger MapOn our way we drove through Crow Agency, Montana, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real ... . And of course, you know I'm with you. In this new digital world order we ... you and I are on opposite sides of this, because I'm a natural homebody

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... " (on the right.) It reminded me of my trip to Spain three summers ago. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  entirely on the time I had to find a way out of that F. And the admissions ... I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of ... everything going on that semester, I had to be a good student. I negotiated

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... through the weekdays makes the weekends of lounging around on Friday and ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... smiling at everyone. Seeing the way in which you not only thrived on campus ... polar opposites of people that somehow found their way to each other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate ... place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... there are other ways to live. Language is tied to that. Staying aware of

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... molten glass is and collecting some on the end of your pipe. Finally, we ... paperweight is really just a lump of glass. It can be completely round on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  -grown trees on the walls. Just on the other side of the hill is a modern Buddha ... night in a hotel that had run the internet wiring on the outside of the ... Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just ... freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and when he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and ... to the Meet the Bloggers event on Friday, from 8:30pm-10pm. It should

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006