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• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  all weekend and getting lost in the tunnels trying to get to a far ... extracurricular opportunities, a brief four-year respite on my journey to become a ... fall before this one, I wanted a fresh start, and I kept getting them. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  as good as it gets. There are a lot of things I'd like to accomplish ... [annotation note="I am extremely lucky, and my apologies to everyone else"]only had a ... . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... and I'm tempted to cross the room and hit snooze, it's like a little

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... ? Can a civilization be healed? Can damage to hateful souls--the rot that ... , in a fragile state. Families and communities are torn apart by unlawful

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a ... DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably ... clothing (a la Gwen Stefani). Sorry, trying to find motivation to keep doing ... "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... straight-laced personality was exposed to a weekend of epic proportions. One

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... up to a truly unbearable amount, but there would be gaps to breathe ... catch up on other stuff, like [annotation note="i promised to make a blog

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project ... organized a MLTalk with the DCI developers and Media Lab director Joi Ito to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really ... everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a ... , pp. 21-35, 67-71 (2008) Gillespie, "Engineering A Principle: 'End-to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid ... of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being ... 't remember talking to anyone who wasn't at least a little surprised at the ... ="though some are predicting it may be closer to a depression

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  topic by a couple hours. I think he has my office bugged! ... place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  -in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who ... zone! :) ) I've made my new year's resolution to try and work out more this year - what's your new year's resolution? Best wishes for a safe

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009