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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the ... for me, this means that I have a ton of data analysis to do. Basically, what I have to do is take one of my neuron pictures, select five 30

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  /or care about all of them. I’m glad to have all of these opportunities to do ... of my life, and I like to tell myself, at least, that I’ve done the ... their ability to take care of themselves, but I certainly worry about my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... failures. Once you reap the rewards of perfectionism though, it's hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  agencies. These will be directly uploaded into your file in plenty of time to ... we know that it took lots of hard work by the records office staff to ... , there are a lot of things that need to happen before an application is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never ... movements) of all the chess pieces when I decided to hit the download button

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  that looking at it immediately brings to mind the warmth of a low fire ... lengths of everything had to be to make it look like the ones I had seen ... mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a ... of things to make It seemed that no sooner than I had arrived on ... trail which runs from the North to the South of Israel (or vice versa

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  over to the end of the Infinite Corridor. In the meantime, the two people ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  right now.) I don't want to do any of these things, especially with 255 ... stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the ... about twenty-five minutes. It seems like the right time to start an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I ... ="57833" image6="57834" /] We crossed over to the other side of the Muddy to swing ... the path, we came to the end of the Back Bay Fens and the Muddy River

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn't relate to the content of the department or the time period it was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  of our events very familiar…).   Time to stop with the boring information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... !  Here’s a preview to some of the McCormick events (along with their

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 21,706 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2022. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... of cognition and character. We often say we don’t admit numbers to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 20,247 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2021. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... of cognition and character. We often say we don’t admit numbers to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one ... opportunity to implement all those bad ideas they've had over the course of the ... take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... -Goldberg devices, and of course robots. But when it finally was time to start

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  to snap this pic of me with Mollie and Jessie. The infamous festival ... left soon thereafter and went to bed. After another morning of ... , I got to meet many of you at the Meet The Bloggers Party. I finally

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... simple reason: I didn't feel that I had anything of substance to share. But ... American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  trying to submit the attendance form on my last few percentage points of ... computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of ... piece of hardware to play nice with it for a class project...or the time I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018