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• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  temporary tune out of the nerd talk going on around me. But there are moments ... everywhere on campus. It was one of the reasons I applied. I still remember ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  . Moral of the story? FedEx. The World on Time.* *note: The author of this ... luck to us on this crazy journey called life. Cheers! (with boba of ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  genuine. I'm so happy that he is on the faculty of a place like MIT. Hearing ... dragged me out of my lab reports. The following costumes were assembled on ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , blue to yellow, etc*. This seemed to depend on the shade of the original ... going on. Instead of two picket fences separated by ten feet, a subpixel ... whatever. Remember that each dot on your screen is one pixel, the color of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book ... videos of me very aggressively quizbowling on a show called Granite State ... I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  part of the creation (you also pour a little water on the neckline for ... before, it is a piece of weight that you put on paper. Or other stuff. They ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  angle of the “absolute confidence” gesture? I make the final decision on ... of rehearsal. Balancing a play on top of everything else has been ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  of jobs available for freshmen (and other students)on campus and other ... of the options I'm pondering). I did like being on crew, but there ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  . Next came the weird business of figuring out how many stamps to put on ... school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... , I’ve been working on my Masters of Architecture down the river at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  living group that put pictures of wolves on their doors. There was a picture on the wall of the suite that we referred to as “The Sigma.” Four ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  thought as tightly as I can." Kim D: "I'm on the 6th draft of my MEng ... all night on this sort of thing because I won't have any finals this ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... Science. It wasn't supposed to be that way because my heart was set on

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition test, in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... 9.15 (Biochemistry/Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission), a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I ... sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005