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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  decided to go on a writing hiatus. At several moments, writing had clashed ... shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  Party before the company packed up and left to Upstate New York. I did a ... involves using your hands. My high school was a magnet school that focused on ... like most of my peers, but hey, it seems to have worked out"]never had a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  /or volunteered to do it on their own - a particularly difficult pset, a band ... backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this ... the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo it, ruffle through my thoughts to find a thread I can tug on, but find ... have the patience to think on it again. I am going through a breakup

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential ... 'm pretty sure they mean an academic program," and I wrote a new essay, which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small ... to leave a legacy" sense, but how to do my best to leave the school ... service. Exercise more. In 2018, I went to the gym three times a week. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An ... -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... extracurricular activity or two, plus a UROP, and still graduate on time and happy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  to have fewer panelists, and a longer discussion on each topic. Don ... hand to adjust what I initially mistook to be a watch on his right wrist ... of him to be so intent on checking the time in the middle of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart ... Khademhosseini knew from an early age that he wanted to be a bioengineer. In fact, his childhood aspiration was to become a professional baseball player

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... -- took on a new hobby that bore some promise. Before school was out in the ... lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time ... MIT as a place they could apply to, be admitted to, and afford to attend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... forthcoming cycle. There's no reason to start on them now, but some people like ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  ! I haven't had to do that on a regular basis for what, four years? We ... the freight industry. It's all new to me, coming from the passenger side ... their work activities or just to show me a specific project they

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has ... world-view shifted, to force me to see things from a different perspective

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from Steven Universe a WHOPPING 3 times this year! I just want to say that ... their top songs to, so give it a listen! And go check out Jebby's blog on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023