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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  do so left me wondering the entire trip what was Chinotto. (A lot of ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  until we have actual work to do. We have a nice view of Burton-Connor and ... moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... " letters, or handwritten notes from admissions offices complimenting a ... why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer. It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... school don’t play with cubes. It’s just a fun thing some people do.  my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  should go home, even if you’ll feel like a failure for doing so… it could ... ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  ? Classes make me do lots of cool things besides sitting in a room and ... "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  professions that are far removed from STEM. My mother has a small business doing ... can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might ... to replicate a technique for doing something. It may also include

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  it took a full embarrassingly long minute for him to relent and do so ... questions about my braids (I still do even at MIT, surprise). I got a lot of ... Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  what I want to do, and not to let my disappointment turn me into a bitter ... I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that ... that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... we have kids, although I'd like a boy. I'll do a lot of cooking to save ... this year? If you do, I'd love to drop a penny off the Empire State

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  overstatement. But, I do know that, that December, I began to feel a lot more ... , to do research—rather than to do tasks on a fixed timeline, and I can ... This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  felt like I was doing a lot of homework. Looking back, I rarely used any ... and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned this semester that make me wish I had paid a bit more attention when I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005