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• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  battles every single day! Trying to chase your dreams while fighting visible ... ): “...tell your friends to pull up.” This is not just a black peoples’ issue ... everything that’s going on. Many of us have had to unplug from social media and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your ... network, leaving everyone on the network (including myself) limited to accessing sites on the network and those on the outside unable to access the

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side ... to start 3.091 (Introduction to Solid State Chemistry) over on Open

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on ... my internship to end on August 27th, which would be the day before REX ... hundred students to new rooms is a fairly difficult process, and takes quite

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  visited campus again as part of a symposium on Asian Diasporas and New ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... 't write funny or interesting commentary on life (unlike Bruce Campbell's #1 fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... this publicly, to your benefit, dear reader."]even to myself ... likes to say, your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went. The last time I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... needed to renovate W1 just wasn't as easy to get our hands on. So the whole ... administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as ... on my blog (readership roughly equal to that of the Washington Times ... buyer's card, good for 20% off your next purchase of up to $200. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... ." Viksit, I can't tell you what your chances are of admission to MIT, because ... College Confidential and the like might lead you to believe otherwise. Your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the times you’ve lost your optimism as the semester has unfolded.. to try and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... not expect them to so quickly, that would be highly unusual and diligent ... to lifting up large boulders and dropping them on the ground. So I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why ... Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to Andrew Lukmann '07 and Ruth Miller '07. I intended to write an elections

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  the world. Past grant recipients have used the money to fund research on ... here's a form you can fill out if you're willing to create a Pepsi ... all to glance about your community and see what you can do to make it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  together on psets in my room or in your room or somewhere else just to enjoy ... taught me about how to learn and how to work. thanks for your passion ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one ... , and it'll be up to you to decide what goes on there. If at the end you ... completely honest about yourself in your application, you are sure to be happy

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... you're an undergrad, you wear it so that "the beaver is sh*tting on you ... Cambridge and Boston skylines on the sides of the ring: while you're at MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014