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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it ... later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... the highest building in Cambridge! Or, more accurately, they do that at ... : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  , courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper. As a "specific object without specific form," this stack transforms into a process. It's nondescript. minimal! sexy. But this visual

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break ... work to do, to recalibrate and figure out a new normal. But I think I ... Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see... Or, I guess, write

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... no good whatsoever, as a writer or as a person. I must be home to do ... there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  doing research. Gradually, the blurry outlines of A Competitive Applicant ... 's leading expert on whatever it was they were doing. A little insecurity ... last summer b) Do a different research project, with a different mentor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  passion and live every day to the fullest doing so take a grad level class ... just the sucky things Get a job Paint murals Do an exercise ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to ... was a paid job. I've just always loved doing it and I would definitely ... a 500-something on one of the sections. And he seemed to be doing fine

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive ... rejection or the long waiting period in between. But do know that you are ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  what people normally do or say. I don’t give a shit what people normally ... I often feel inspired when I least expect to. When I do feel ... mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  happening during IAP, check out mit.tumblr.com which is also doing a series of ... a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of ... : Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin ... -income Pre-orientation Program']outdoor ropes course[/annotation] Attended a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else ... physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < ... all the physics I learned freshman/sophomore year, starting a week ago

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  transporting someone from point A to B very quickly. But I'm going to do it with ... never be able to do what Eddy said, because there would be a LOT of energy ... get there, someone would’ve built a better and faster approach to do it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  'll play this as a guessing game: how many freshman applications do you think ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am perfect today. Perfect? What do you mean, "perfect," you ask? Well, today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  truth. Here are a few to start off: Do you enjoy being worked (read ... I know I haven't written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  . Passion, passion, passion. Quality over quantity. You don't have to do a million things to get into college. You just have to do a few things that ... well. Question #12a (Tell us about something you do simply for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP ... so hard to remember that "you do not have to walk on your knees for a ... ?" And, for a moment, I thought about it. What have I grown into, and do I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022