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• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  wanted to keep it going. On the morning of the activities midway, maybe ... . On one level, I still enjoy being a member of hall and participating in ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... -powered airplane. The guys with their plane on the day of its first flight test ... science-filled reception at the Museum of Science. And then we'll go on our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... on his mailbox that had some sort of complicated mechanism that I no ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  the 10 AM test (also worth 12.5% of grade) to work on this, and that if ... 're running on empty, you can run on intensity alone. Maybe not as fast as you ... Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6

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

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  state of New Hampshire's greatest, and most revered, cultural practice ... -Shave-November, as practiced by natives of New Hampshire, are sacred, but simple ... , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... on campus, you should come see in person, instead of relying on the ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  While the period known as "End of term" certainly brings finals ... conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of these, including the last 3.091 lecture (described here by Kevin), all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  voices in sci-fi/fantasy, and the importance of story. On good weeks you ... , scrambling to finish on time.   Parts of MIT are wonderful in this ... tools piled high on the shelves. The place smells of metal shavings, and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  "not admitted" thread on Ben's blog, this school is not a bastion of ... , Caltech sucks!" statement on here. :) I hope those of you who came to CPW ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  blogger application, to finally take on this vlogging challenge. I will be vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... I was inspired by Ceri's take on VEDA and partly by my long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  Bell "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on ... . Honestly pi day is pretty awesome, but that other thing that's going on will be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I ... : not all of us will be returning. The new semester marks not only the ... the class of 2014. On one hand, we are proud of their accomplishments

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I ... ways to enjoy a New England spring and it does have its' charms, I ... instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  's reflection on John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration of the Independence of ... result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  spending instead of just spending willy-nilly on anything that looks shiny ... , some eat on campus for all their meals, and lots of people do everything ... . Not too long ago, some friends of mine over on Conner-2 went through

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... break catching up on internship work, and starting a new novel. Then the ... on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  UROP and I noticed on their website there are two options of being paid ... experiments/conclusion depends on what sort of journal the paper is intended to ... . (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on what choices students should make to help their chances of coming to MIT ... through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012