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  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  the way people live their lives in the future. It’s going to be a long ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  way better than being decided. Come to your friends’ student group ... change. It can be scary or liberating. Either way, try to call them at ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during the summer, asked if she would be willing to let me visit her lab. To ... particular, I really enjoyed being able to talk to the undergraduate students

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have turned out if I’d gone to Harvard. (I think I’m glad I didn’t, I think I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  that being an introvert is necessarily bad (check out Quiet by Susan Cain ... friends can't be that hard. All you have to do is say hi, shake hands, and ... decided I'd have to trick it into social interaction by giving it chances to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  crowd lining up all the way out to the building 56 Athena cluster ... 3: (HAYDEN gets beaten to a pulp by SAMUEL L. JACKSON) MALE AND ... transporting someone from point A to B very quickly. But I'm going to do it with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy ... rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  that’s the way it has to or should be: I still make an effort to balance ... route to a familiar place or stopping by the Maseeh 3 lounge on my way ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the ... I continued to wallow in what seemed to be my final moments with my ... could be when I didn’t have to drag myself out of bed to them to attend

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... were chosen by a Commission on Presidential Scholars. They will be feted ... Published: Monday, May. 22, 2006 By DAVID BROOKS / Nashua Telegraph At right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  made time for things that made me happy. Everything seemed to be going ... . Probably like how macaroni and cheese would be if it were made by an ... online readings for whatever I needed to finish my paper by Tuesday 2pm

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... extensions on it. Note to self: Extensions are good. I saw a hawk on the way to ... be. I first settled on writing about political echo chambers created by

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  . Winston links to. Enjoy! Always Moving Forward by Professor Patrick ... a school defined by numbers. Everything, from the buildings to the ... . Academics has to be your No. 1 goal here. If it's just football, you're going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  . Realize time is going by too quickly. And let time pass though. ... song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden MacKay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  Cassvita, Pelkins hopes there will be a way to monetize cassava more ... and phone line closures orchestrated by the government to control the ... I have been amazed by the lengths many African students are willing to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me ... 't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  quick text message to Eric Schmiedl, a quick "I'll be right there!" and ... As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM ... going to be a good night. At ten, Javi '08, Jordan '11, Dan '11, and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  biographical information. I’m not being paid to say this, but I thought the MIT ... to someone else since she was too busy to interview me (as one might be ... requested by other schools as supplements (shoutout to MIT’s mini-essays). I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025