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• 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
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project ... with a lot of perspective, but had to spend time getting back into the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my ... . As someone often who doesn’t have the patience to measure things in standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... spring of last year, I realized I really wanted to be in California for the summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 ... chance to see them strive and struggle, and to become the people we knew ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  of tea, to hold as the weather gets cold. <3 ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get on the show? I was contacted by casting and asked to make an audition ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  't sure what method to use, by writing 2 answers on the paper, you actually ... explaining what happened. I expected to get a good score for the TOEFL... I ... , would I be able to get credit and/or placement?" It's possible! All of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  riders are there to learn and observe and basically be bossed around by the ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  monster (not including travel time) and by the time I got back to the apartment, all I wanted to do was eat nectarines (which, by the way, are ... ’m going out more and really getting to see the city just across the river

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  , over and over, trying to get it right and figure out what the relative ... midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to ... students/affiliates/alumni how to create fancy cocktails the correct way, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full ... investigator" or PI), wants me to write some sort of short and sweet paper on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to ... some more and wrestle with the program to try to get a drawing or two out ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... . The etymology of the word 'endure' traces to a 1382 English translation ... struggled, not always successfully, to resist the pull of the former in favor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... matters to you. To them, I say: please don't let the availability heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't healthy and something I will have to deal with by the time I have ... science/engineering is one of the most effective ways to help the world! By ... . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  girls were lying on their backs, refusing to get up - and the guy from ... sprint by Raphael, we managed to catch a cab back to the hostel. R ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  get back to MIT or that Ben will buy me one to advance the cause of my ... to the 44 people who checked out my blog yesterday even though I haven ... to jam up if adjacent keys were struck rapidly in succession. So, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather ... to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018