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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , quick to laugh, impossible to anger, and radically human-centered in ... Louisiana that left him with a hard-coded aversion to any kind of violence ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , Good luck to those finishing regular decision apps! And Happy New Year ... , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  quickly realized that hair is a nice way to keep your face warm in the ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you ... need to find a job or something productive to do over the summer. Senior

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  : Well, I guess I might have to look into a new computer. I'll hear back ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... . What makes me sad is when students focus on their studies to the ... student say something like, "Well, I'm cutting back on that to focus on more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids ... is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... would pick me up on the other side. Of course, I'm a worrier, and I got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... as GPA, class rank. He is quick to shy away from any action that he

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... -person competitions all over New England. They're taking this semester as a time to step ... I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a

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

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  extracurricular opportunities, a brief four-year respite on my journey to become a ... Yamato’s. I want a full, productive year working on my UROP. I want to see ... Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... decided to take matters into my own hands and e-mail Professor Christoper A ... :06:10 -0400 [08/02/05 17:06:10 EDT] From: Sam Maurer To: Professor Christopher A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that ... to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  ). Not having a board to write on in a math class threw off my flow for a ... large piece of paper and a Sharpie. Trying to hang up this paper on the ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your ... you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  : Anyway, I click on the e-mail and see this: Subject: To Blog About A Dream ... myself to get off the internet. The monkey was writhing around on the ... finally I woke up with a start. I wonder what it's supposed to mean

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  conducting mine. It was really easy to get a new EC. I just had to make a phone ... will establish another connection to the town. On a less personal level ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  . Living in Random Hall, known to be a small, quirky, counter-culture dorm on ... escape to on chilly winter nights with friends. I loved the quick walk to ... I've been blogblocked a lot and I've been really trying to find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  trouble finding it. This morning, I woke up really early to a bright New ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to a room on the second floor of Building Four where they were casting ... , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN ... kitten except for little Brittany! Kayla hasn't decided on a name yet

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014