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• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and ... road that I'd been working towards for so long. I'll be the first to ... - for me to have no idea what I'm doing with my life, I'm having to take a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my friends have been to even the UK (of all non-exotic places, at least from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Princeton. This is an amazing talk. You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... and let everything defrost, but some of you were lucky enough to get ... of my life, my floormates and I packed our bags and headed up to New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by ... invite him/her out to an evening banquet. Register online and have all

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• 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 distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... ecosystem as it continues to develop, or, more specifically, a home for

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

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... about getting used to moving on the broom and handling the ball with just ... spectators. Given that the sport is brand-new, I expected the stands to be

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  . You don't get something for nothing. In addition to rerouting your life ... for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  run by undergrads who can get paid for their efforts through UROP ... Cambridge for some conference or another, so he decided to stop by and ask for ... Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for ... starting to like looking up new healthy recipes and discovering new healthy ... Apple oatmeal with my scary vitamin.  I go to work, and then for lunch I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us ... order to start the cycle again for sophomore year, we decided to transfer ... freinds from highschool gave Allan for secret santa 6) Trinkets related to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  was rare for my request to result in me getting full points for a ... . We kept getting graded differently for questions where our answers had ... straightforward. In most of these cases, I was asking for my response to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... total n00b when you get to MIT. I'll help you out. First, pronouncing ... . Sorry about no blog entries lately, I'm trying to adjust to a new sleep

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  found here; thanks to Jeanne '13 for uploading them! Mad props to SAAS ... to be videos)! And look out for another entry soon about, oh I don ... that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... likes to say, your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went. The last time I ... Glacier for a day hike, out to Manson, WA to visit my friend Kate, then down

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  applications for most of the rest of the day, listening to my new music. Tomorrow ... application becomes complete, it goes to the staff to be read. For applications ... (remember, we're professionals); newer readers might take 30-45 minutes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... doled out to him by both Fudge and Scrimgeour, the Prime Minister cries ... been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  schedule, or the work that needs to get done, but it does mean I never have a ... knowing me, I'll find other things to do. New York is a big city, right? I ... therapist asked me about when I get depressive episodes. And I said that I got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023