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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  house us in a place where we can be inspired and taught By one another ... In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... why You mean so much to me. Poor soul, poor soul You’re often scorned

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up ... unit is supposed to be approximately equivalent to one hour of work per ... . I have enjoyed being able to see the translation between an algorithm

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  quite this way? I'm not sure -- I wonder if I would be more able to focus ... host is off-grid, or if you will be expected to camp outside or eat only ... could totally be a murderer trying to lure smelly travellers to their

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... weeks go by and I try to get ready to start working on this assignment. I ... racism look like? Balancing all of this proved to be difficult, but I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... is Quynh Nguyen and I’ve always wanted to be an admissions blogger

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  ’t have to make my way back to Nairobi amidst these very uncertain ... on my bs and set the bar high for what I should aspire to be- the ones ... like a new day is coming, and I have reason to be optimistic. We survived.

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday ... , would be able to handle anything (Boston was designed for horses and never ... way early, I asked to switch to the 4:30. The dude driving the baggage

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  did. So far I'm very happy with that decision, but it remains to be seen ... calculus you need to know for that class is integration by parts. Sure, it'll be your first MIT math class but you have to start somewhere. And trust

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  to be truly amazing. Some of my favorites were:  the Afro ... , but with more leeway than in the US, which I’ve had to be aware of each ... mountainside where there used to be a waterfall, considered the environmental

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any ... to go out of my way to perform these types of kindnesses. This is not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... among tutors. Returning tutors are invited to be team leaders. The team thing is important to explain, too. The school has lots of ways to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  to track my spending. Own 5 designer items by the end of the year ... , but this is a good way to keep me motivated for school. Read 5 books ... work on it. Get a summer 2022 internship. - It would be great to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant ... form for the AU would be a one-way CfD (contract for differences ... Countries Will Be Forced to Follow In 2003, the US Internal Revenue Service

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... their team walked anywhere- they danced. They were so much fun to be ... was just so excited to be back at a FIRST competition. Oh FIRST. Where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  uncomfortable middle school years, who of my age -- trying desperately to be ... , and I was amazed. I didn't expect the world to be able to love a man who ... 't think the world would be able to separate sin from a sinner. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  learning how to be a global citizen, I figured that something like eating ... would probably be a bad idea, so instead we just decided to be "college ... 8 hours to get to us." and "I wonder if they'll be staying longer than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  ? You only have room for a couple of activities, some may have to be dropped, which will they be? On MIT's application you'll have to remember ... admissions wants to see is a dangerous dangerous game to play. You need to be a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  the scattered light wasn't there. Researchers already have ways to ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... -liberal-in-a-red-state part. It's probably the closest thing I had to really being part of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... delight slip by. Every day, I do my best to squeeze as much joy as I can out ... ’ll be grateful for always trying to start off my day well.  Also

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023