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• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  you to great outcomes that you otherwise would never experience. for instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... -romantic relationships as well) fast-forward to a few weeks ago when, in several

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the ... few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... goes to college.) So there you have it. Plenty of options to get you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  . Unfortunately, by the time I get there it's pretty late, and (probably due to the ... inconvenience. By about 11:30pm, I finally get to the other hotel, check in, and ... :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six ... , bought a race license, and two new(ish) pairs of skis though, one for each ... I managed to get myself through the start gate. I have no memory of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... hired by MIT's admissions office in 1979 to help recruit more women, then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  time I try to write it I get sad and miss home and put it off ‘til later. I will get around to introducing myself and Kentucky soon, so just ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... a way for me to get over it. But I’ve had more good days. I know they ... .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , ungracefully truncated by the finite spacial limits of Google Calendar. Lulu is a ... interviews = Random Hall is currently reviewing applications for a new Graduate ... GRT is willing to cook food for us on a regular basis, besides doing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am ... closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a virtual reality headset for myself to start messing around and developing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  semester at MIT, something I didn't get to do last summer. I went to bed ... work at home, working outside for my dad. No, I'm not working for Google ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated ... to be built ASAP. Talk about silly-fast! And so far, startup life has ... brought me home for IAP, which has been a blessing. Being so close to home

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  track to have a gorgeous Google Glass app. :) And for ... college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... . Don't be. Be proud of the courage it took for her to cross an ocean into

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  hit the mainland we drive as fast as possible to escape the flat parts of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets ... the gifted sprinters, and us "amateur hobbyists" were less likely to get seriously discouraged or injured compared to training for the longer mile

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  huge deal for New Englanders growing up, and I'd like to be a part of it ... MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... ’ll sometimes just get random flashbacks to absolutely random things that have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  post-blogger-meeting trip to IKEA for my new standing desk -- expect an ... note "it's for your own good." Or maybe not. But people get too worked ... 't get things done. The way it works for me is that when there are more

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  was then scheduled for Monday, 8/31 (The day I moved into my new ... "Why do you want to be apart of CodeIt?" and other things. For the ... links to all of the labs for the rest of the semester for Sundays and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020