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• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... , because to be honest, I’d been feeling weird about UROPing at all. I didn ... "]email[/annotation]about the bio UROP mixer—I looked at my schedule, saw that I was free

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  , interning at a writers’ retreat, and backpacking through Europe. This break, I ... exactly one journal entry, begun at 3 am and completed at 4, after which I ... , etc etc. In hindsight I had consumed a Monster at 9pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  just intrinsically awful at jazz, and this will get easier as we gain ... to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... -explained Wikipedia entry as the first Google hit on the topic. But instead, when I look

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  tagged as “home” on Google Maps, but also a place that truly felt like one ... ’t quite seen anything like it at MIT, let alone in my life at all. i do ... lucky enough to find this at my dorm. dorm thoughts + room tour + panic

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There ... fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys ... eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... sure that you get to eat while at MIT by hanging out with people who have ... effectively saying that nothing is important, or at least nothing is more

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... . You know you're at MIT when you would consider forgoing a Nobel laureate ... , they pronounce diphthongs backwards. We'll be going to Switzerland at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  takeaway address the most important (or at least a sufficiently important ... 'll know what to write about, but at this point you probably need to start

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  identify and select them. As I reflect about my experience at MIT, I am ... (including me) changes it. At the time, I don't think I fully appreciated what

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  say about you? So even at the most fundamental level, external ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt ... , there are still weeks, and then, days left.    at some point, it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  means to an end, many seem to have lost the plot. At MIT, we are mission

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement ... .      Ellen Kullman, the first woman CEO and current CEO of DuPont, was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  What is DTYD? Dance 'Til You Drop is an annual party hosted by my ... , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  practice at 9, stayed after to tumble til about 11. Went to sleep about 6am ... game at 8, which officially put us into the playoffs (yeah!) [which ... the final drafts of my essays looked at by the writing department staff

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all ... wanted at least some way to mentally prepare before I read the words on the ... letter, and stood at the door when my parents came home. My dad walked in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively ... some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn ... , and blah blah blah blah blah. "But Google can do this too!" No. Google

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005