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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  ).... and I've decided to be ME (get the pun?)!! Why you might ask? Well... it ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I'd like to dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  always great -- use the web to get inspiration for a project that you can ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think ... . To anyone reading this, it gets lighter. I will give you a short ... 've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  /unexpected as getting into MIT (I know what it feels like, I'm allowed to compare ... airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... the year after that. So, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to try to get a

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your ... best part about being a professor is that you get to be last author on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  enough to get some solos in Fugues songs last year, and when I did, I found ... ability to transcend the goal, transcend the success of the best, if you get ... Infinite Corridor during a typical day to get from Lobby 7, to Building 26

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into ... I like the feeling of consistently improving. Getting back to lifting ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  'm excited to be going home so I can finally get some sleep - between learning ... was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... fraction, to prove this point to me. All he really proved, though, was that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something ... resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  MIT was, I knew that I was supposed to get a scholarship, go there, and ... , and then we waited for Ed and Shane to get back from New Hampshire with ... spent doing homework those months. To begin getting to my point, I shall

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  this one, however, we were using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tools to ... Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  out to do, getting grades and publishing papers, throwing them into the ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  to keep, and current ones shouldn't get hung up on the things that must ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  awesome opportunity to get hands-on experience that related to what I was ... The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  ’m building back to playing for long periods of time, because my foot gets ... learned that if something is taken from me, I will do my very best to get it ... Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  handing people markers and getting them to solve crosswords, the next night ... friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  scratch. You get 20 minutes to escape the room and secure a UROP! As a part ... all of you! So, welcome to MIT ‘22s!! We can’t wait to get to know y ... offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make ... Seacrest of spices. It gets to mingle with all the hottest stars, but isn ... to get the recipes!

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011