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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water ... , streams, and rivers? Third, how do people “get” water? And lastly, this ... pipes for the area or someone's doing plumbing maintenance in the building

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  to try a back dive off the board even when all the younger kids do it ... experience. We do have some people on the team who have raced previously and ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  to pretty much anything, so if you’re still doing some last ... actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing ... hours, do it, take all the allotted breaks, score yourself. If you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  : what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I should be doing. Different concept. *stares blearily at computer screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  , but here's a note to all you other parents out there: do not do this ... wanted to do computer science, but I didn’t want to be surrounded only by ... do know someone with a very slobbery ‘cat,’ if you know what I mean

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... lot to do with my age juxtaposed against the sheer size of the book ... book, followed by an in-depth review by a professor. And I do mean in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  , and it was up to us to crack the case - which we could do only by ... required me to do a lot of crazy things, including (but not limited to ... would you do this to me?" "It looks straight...forward." Josiah '09: "I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , thinks 18-year-olds ought to be doing. Not many sleep eight hours a night ... at MIT by a series of student suicides. Students "want to do everything ... they're doing something where they're not being judged. That's the big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  'd hoped for, what I did, and what I'm hoping to do. I mentioned being ... the work I’m doing, and the media I’m consuming, but damn could I use a ... skipping hangouts in favor of doing work. All this alone time, though, is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ."]friend[/annotation] what I'm thinking. Considering how much writing I've been doing, and to ... for your submission to Annalen der Physik. We hope that you do not take ... . Should you have any questions about these comments, do not hesitate to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... studying, but if I wasn't learning it properly, I wouldn't do as well as the ... studied the nights before for many hours, doing review problems and re

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Period--the month of January where students can do as they please (take a class, do research, go abroad, take a long winter break, etc. etc ... competitive, we thought it would be fun to do something where we could actively

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  : Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine ... felt that doing my road test in Manhattan would be much worse. With that ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... thought. If I really buckled down it would be hard, but I'd be able to do it ... the website and what do I find? The band is on tour. And their first

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Known School of Three Letters 🎓 What I miss Do you know what I really ... rest or do fun things. When you become an Old Person and leave school ... into trouble. I also can't read stuff when I am driving, but I can do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  still on campus, however, we do have two things to help us cope—✨the power ... massive group meals! My friends and I are actually planning to do a big ... —hey, we should probably make a list of ingredients! But wait. We couldn’t do

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  , accountable way. This is a good thing to do."]discussing all the things we didn ... sexual appeal to offer them do they finally treat me as one of them. That I ... image in my head with the person before me. I don't quite know what to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt ... turns out, it is very hard to do many of these things, and I worry that I ... everything now - who am I? What do I care about? What do I want out of my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  shows i never would’ve started otherwise - for instance, i do not have the ... ideas together, and i do not give them as much care as they deserve ... better technique. but i think improvements in technique alone do not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing ... campus, taking classes and doing research. How does it feel? I don’t know ... like I always do, on my way from something or other to something else

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022