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• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about ... character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the ... evaluating myself lately. Feel free to just skim the bullet points because the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  by the shore, wash it, boil it for a while to get rid of anything it ... all my materials so they would arrive to campus by the time I got there ... conditions right to get the floor seeds to sprout...but after a week, things in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a natural by-product of following your passion. The people who are most ... important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... lab doing research. "So you’re the new urop?" 3. n the work assigned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  get lost looking into the future. I don’t want to live through fall just ... lot to me. I just hope that by the end of our four years here, or by ... -lined asphalt to Honey Pot Hills Orchards. Laden with sleepy MIT students, the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community ... press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  've been so heavily goal-oriented, focused on getting through to the next ... To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was ... firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... , lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  was a no-brainer. I couldn’t seem to get the research out of my ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... as she left to go wherever she was heading. That story captures the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  , and Thursday would finally be the end of my stressful week. I’d get to ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  bucks.  That's not including the cost of getting trained to use that gear ... taking the class - it'll give you universal shop access to many shops on campus (including the Edgerton Center, where getting off the waiting list

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  absolutely no idea what college would be like. the whole concept of getting to ... refer to mit things by name and have someone understand. six. not all the ... internship interviews is that it's not only a chance for the company to get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior ... ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third ... incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  pumpkin patch sale to raise money. I was told that the best way to get in ... started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to ... , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth ... certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... was confused as to why that would be the case. I considered myself

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Heads To M.I.T By Fraendy Clervaud WJBF News Channel 6 Reporter June 4 ... school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems ... -frosh get their I3 (Interactive Introduction to the Institute) housing DVD and ... is appointed by the previous RAC. If you want to stay put/Moving to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  's not much trouble at all to get up the river, and you're allowed to take ... to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006