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• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and ... you'll get over it but you feel like you never will.[1] So if I can offer any advice it's just to emote. Let your psychological immune system

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  me to enter saying "I know you'll at least get 3rd place" and I ... native speaker to get any questions I had out of the way. I definitely owe ... the ability to communicate with about 1/5 of the population, and get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to ... 'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  of getting one’s clothes muddy and missing a class, that they refuse to ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to ... ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... lot of writing, rewriting, deleting, and revising to get me to a point

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  ."]insane Google calendar starting to fill.[/annotation] The scene transitions to ... get the point. I am excited to keep doing things, both in math and in ... getting to exist in a weird liminal space where everyone is just (as Cami

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  -India Program 2011 Internship: Google India, Bangalore The project: Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result ... : Bangalore is the best city to work in India –cool weather, awesome

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these ... were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public ... myself who like to window-shop at Tiffany. You can get to them on the Green

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel ... Langer has made enormous contributions to the fields of biotechnology and ... dedicated to celebrating his incredible achievements. Albert Kwon, a Junior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  today, Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier sent an email to ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of ... that the MIT community will pause to commemorate and recognize Indigenous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on ... 's 150th was a pretty neat event to cover: Check out these three articles

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum ... like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lot of trouble sitting still at work. I like to get up and get tea and ... problem sets and projects before they get to the students. That second chunk is what we’re trying to get out of the way before the start of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case, Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  purpose of making a profit and getting drugs that will make it to patients ... , and you get to decide what that lab works on. However, in order to do ... -Doctoral students that all want this position. So, in order to get this position you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016