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• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of ... January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my ... someone on Sunday who tested positive for Covid a few days after. The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... reactor design), and 10.213 (chemical engineering thermodynamics) all at ... amount of ethyl acetate at a given purity per year. Ethyl acetate is a very

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or ... combination of those). I'm not even a senior yet, but at this half-way point, I would tell my freshman self to explore more and don't be rigid for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  you drag over all those colored boxes at the top of your screen and look at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We ... like SecureFX and WinSCP. We're also responsible for knowing enough HTML

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... lunch, go home, study for standardized tests, IM friends, get into college ... wind part my hair a little. At least my chair is made of comfortable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... like a chore at first, remember that everything in you application is ... studying at MIT. 2. Yes, we really do look at more that your standardized

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  school in Cambridge, spending very little time at this school which I had ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... very appealing. And, yes, 42% of the population at MIT, as it turned out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time.” “But I am not cool.”     “I am not cool. Not enough for ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river ... friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... nice to just do that for a whole weekend without having to worry about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... one of 3 companies that called us back for onsite interviews.  Around ... rejected from the last company we thought we still had a chance to work at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  this situation amusing and are making this post "just for the title ... , our room is actually where Sal Khan lived during his time at MIT! Can ... Katherine C. '19 got us for our birthday! Pay close attention to the bottom

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  makes us into gray sheep (or at least somewhat grayer sheep). For sure it ... sang was a farewell concert for our graduating seniors. Last night we ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  school for at least 3-5 minutes, it's hard to tell whether or not that was ... have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... crossing the river, and you look up to see the dome glowing at you, staring ... will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  that "no one" at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in ... students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... Wikipedia for that ;) - I had a great time watching Dirty Hands. The set was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  systems are actually all around you (and even in you! For example, your ... , proceeded to forget her name, and then called her “Lauren” for the next hour ... Investigation- Taught by an assistant program director at the MIT Clinical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I ... . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and ... been focusing on that admission decision for months. It occupied my every

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  the control group, at which point they did not attempt to jump over the ... doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a ... curriculums need to be restructured to give students better avenues for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT ... Hayden for the next few hours.” I hadn’t thought about experiences like ... . At the start, I was definitely too optimistic about how much fun I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... Camp was not at all what I expected. It was both harder and easier than I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008