Search

Search Results

• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... you decide to use your IAP to just exist, you feel like a stupid, weak ... IAP I’m proving to myself that I’m serious about it by actually

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  using "playful technologies". By playful technologies, they mean using new ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... see all these groups come together to start something new. Riz Virk

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  in your lap. Rule No. 2 Talk Don't be afraid to talk to people, no matter what their rank is in comparison to yours. You have a lot to say ...  you have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mnemonic Contest Winner Congratulations, Shawn!

  

  Start spreading the news! The new mnemonic for the planets is: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing. Congrats to Shawn for winning! If you'd like to redeem your super awesome prize, email me at

  • by Bryan
  • September 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... weekend of February was the ESP retreat, where we drove up to New Hampshire ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  in my desk in New York. Frantically, we started to see if there was any way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn ... !!! So here it is, good luck to you if you're applying to college, and good

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... , so I've moved on to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ... saw the new Minions movie. I'm trying to avoid watching too much

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to ... community of students with similar backgrounds to rely on throughout your time ... -- if you’re a prefrosh or prospective student, I encourage you to learn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... . "Delayed by four minutes every day" is a familiar expression to astronomers ... that Bell's noise was getting delayed by four minutes every day meant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water ... , the next time you make this soup, it's gonna blow your mind. Seriously ... . Ignore the four-star ratings on the website--the people who posted that are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... clouded with pain. What. Body sculpt? As in, trying to make your body look ... giving up on using their weights. One by one, weights clunked to the ground

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... to you? Does the work in your portfolio help us better understand ... portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  question: "a year from now, how intact do you want your emotions to be ... no one to mention it to. Only then does it get lonely. "n ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... college. We all showed up ready to have our minds blown by Joshua Bell ... him?) decided to show off two of his talents at the same time by playing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  listening to a nurse say "puff our your chest like a girl puffs out her boobs ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... lazy one. Got dressed, and was treated to pancakes by my friend Sophie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... mom used to say that I’m directionless; not in life, but by foot. I ... place you’re trying to walk to. So as a kid without a GPS in her pocket, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  motivation among friends to get stuff done (in startup speak: GSD.) Halfway ... skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... $370,000 for our new shirts, even getting some cool press. I did end up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  virtue, however, is a contradiction: you're selfishly claiming to be ... passions. I don't feel the need to lie to myself by claiming this was out of ... , that by attending a more prestigious school I might be able to help more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  get to know other members of your class - so if that means missing a ... /conversations. 5. GET FREE STUFF - Consider this your ultimate goal at CPW =P Get to ... 't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025