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• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... schedule kicked in. I had decided at one point that it was a brilliant idea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  the afternoon at the Media Lab building connections for potential UROPs ... - Now I know to keep my MIT ID in my wallet at all times and I leave for ... word for it).  People have faults.  Noone is better then everyone else at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  'll at least know that you might still have what you're looking for if your ... classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at running experiments or doing work, you're also good at expressing the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas ... less frequently and with more consideration for other people. The fact ... , etc) at my own pace. In the fall, I started kindergarten. Summers 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... number of rooms and allow the individuals to decide for themselves. I also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  It's official: my first semester at MIT is over. After finishing four ... . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  general direction (at least for this particular phase of my life/version of ... (for a friend's wedding! a lovely reason to return), ft. a peek at the ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building) are finally open! For those ... -shaped buildings arranged at odd angles between [annotation note="where large ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . I've been at my living group for six semesters. I dated the same ... hiring at the time. After throwing my resume at company after company, I ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  time alone, which is why when all my friends left for the holidays, it ... book and painting a Christmas present for my sister as i watched anime ... TV while at MIT was unheard of... when i went home, everything changed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... memeing. On the brink of graduation, I'm able to look back at all the ... 's approximately what the tiers mean in my mind: S: My absolute favorite classes at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... be a tourist. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time. How I looked

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... Antiquarian Book Fair, and flyers for future Boston adventures. Then we headed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  ’t say for sure when the Plague started, but I remember clearly the day it ... the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... emails to professors: “I have been ill for quite some time now, and it is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a ... 's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... London. I don't really want The Internet to know my address, so for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  perfectly at ease with social interaction!" Me 2: "Ah-ah-ah, don't be getting ... sitting at the table over there? Come on, get on it. Say hi to him." Me 1 ... up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... of MIT’s willingness to pay for you to travel) including England ... really ventured into the real world, or what the real world may hold for me

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  people at MIT: Yes, we have a number of Nobel laureates, but every now and ... celebrity whom I photographed at really close range.   The ... ceremony took place last week. In a nutshell, Amanda D., a sophomore at MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... little thing called small talk that people substitute for awkward silence ... at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011