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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  perfectly honest, it depends exactly what you mean by "not up to par," which ... around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why's that? Because I got the highest test grade I've gotten at MIT by about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... your essays fit word limits, it can be very helpful to get a second ... mission. I am lucky that the people around me basically trusted me to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public ... snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  By: get a head start on 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms), applied to daily ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point. So I've developed some go-to time-burners to get my mind on something

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... , culture, and diversity. I will admit that sometimes it takes a while to get

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a ... these Oreos to people as they walk by. Amanda '08 asked me whose they were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  assignments to give myself a little time to reset. By the end I no longer cared ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a ... . It was taken by an automated camera attached to a weather balloon which ... to this fantastic culinary creation by Greg, however. One, because it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  (ex: Fires caused by lithium ion batteries in landfills)? It goes to ... model to show that this solution was feasible, by doing a power ... Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and ... and a friend as years went by. Freshman year was a shitshow. I could give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms ... by all my ci-h classes and [annotation note="I AM NOW IN INTRO TO ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  documentary (more to come on that soon) and then later returned home to get some ... , people are really hardcore and get up at all hours to wait in line for ... I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  my lab is coordinating a book group to get together and discuss it ... by longing than by reason." (www.washingtonpost.com). He points to our ... was by a company called Celera Genomics which wanted to patent/sell the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get ... adorable and beautiful things produced by MIT students. 1. Storytime Way back ... ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  get to comment on the subject at hand, EXCEPT for the Dalai Lama. The ... them - John Sterman - was nicknamed "Doctor Doom" by his students due to ... . All this prompted a comment by His Holiness that we need to take care of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  something to complain about, it felt like. I had felt so betrayed by MIT at ... , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  towards the train station, I managed to get a video: Also - KEIRA ... IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude ... traveling to various cities. I'm actually really glad I went by myself; it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020