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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message ... presented to the professors and panel of jurors at the final review??? Panic ... wheel. Sometimes, unimaginable 'end-of-the-worlds' might spring up and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... felt relieved, though, to have gotten through the first segment of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  the U.S. and some other places, of taking history as Facts with a ... Ethiopia hung on for twenty, and even now, the major tenets of the system are ... people leave the country and never return, are afraid of doing business

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and ... minority dinner and got to meet a bunch of interesting new people! The food ... Robert and Grace and was amazed at all the opportunities and the amount of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... [annotation note="The instructors were aware of this and did attempt to mitigate

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  ...have grades. And that won't happen until the end of your freshman year. That ... school, and I figured that once I was mixed in with some of the smartest ... volunteer on the ambulance and...there are so, so many other aspects of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of ... and trivial. for example, when i draw, i'm spurred by the prospect of ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for it. Enjoy! Shameless plug -- stop by the Meet the Bloggers event

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  since it was one of the two recommended courses and because i wanted to ... . i have 20 hours of dance this week and i’m only doing seven of the 12 ... lot of fun, and the thought of performing them at Mocha Show in February

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  in character, and the G major triad is outlined by the first note of ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on ... , where the other 2014s were waiting with a bottle of wine. We toasted, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the ... skin, or simply happily getting out of bed in the mornings. And, of

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

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  pool. 2005: Excellent, and better than the majority of people who were ... class of 530, because I didn't want to play the "take all AP classes and ... , and the education I got here really changed the course of my life. That

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... hang freely, and then, with one rapid flick of the wrist, somehow tie the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... 'm confused as to what day of the week it is lol. And there's like no end in ... and you...well...you are really out here. Ameer: The terminology of

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of ... sheet and make sure that all of the filing has been done correctly, that ... Officers get locked in a dungeon and cannot come out until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of ... , answer questions and just generally be helpful. One of the ECs, Gregg ... effective as ECs on behalf of the Admissions Office and of course, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  students and staff to follow (the title of this post being one - those ... the first place. Some of the more important rules fall under the "these ... to Elder. A group of students was also going to lunch and reached the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my own arms on the daily. My first kindergarten show-and-tell was a ... ’ve become sick of the painting, and are simply waiting to finally throw it ... understand. You see the fruition of your efforts and achieve the sweetness of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023