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• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  isn’t. For something more fancy, color changes are cool too! Give your ... ="A girls’ math contest hosted at MIT every year"]Math Prize for Girls,[/annotation] I was entranced by the instructions for a simple origami cube laid out

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl ... 't unsee the work behind these products. There's a bajillion people for every nibbly little step. This job made me have a deeper appreciation for not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... of art or read a book for enjoyment in a while, but I don't know how I ... friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A ... my little sister will inspire me to go to more. I’ve found outlets for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  phone. As Ajay found his profile for me, Lupe sighed. "This is what I was ... true to yourself, and rap is such an explosive medium that asks for so ... old, I realized for the first time that everybody else experienced

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  's pretty common around here for people to use our October long weekend ... visited before, for the primary reason that it was a nice-looking park that you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  about myself, for a while. i felt better for days, weeks, even. but then ... behind. did you ever think about how awful it felt for them? dan: don ... for kidnapping. cj: it was ridiculous, frankly. alan: but it happened

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of effort into my work only to receive bad grades for them. And sure, grades

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... and trivial. for example, when i draw, i'm spurred by the prospect of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... for the bad wiring. I have never worked with a breadboard prior to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... where Ruby and Sapphire fuse for the “first” time again. Watching the cast

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  for a ten day immersion into the epidemic. Taught by Dr. Bruce Walker ... . It doesn't take long for our heartbeats to naturally fall into sync ... for the future: "I'm going to finish the FRESH program and go to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  swanky hotel in the early 1900’s, then it was a grad dorm for 70 years, so ... leave for class 3 minutes before it starts has been a game-changer. 3 ... my ID and being trapped in the lobby for all eternity. 2) White walls

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... take a break from the weird food analogy for now. (Sidenote: if by now

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  the noises of the world, even for just a couple of minutes. It’s almost ... can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... for a night. Often times, they’re even free! MIT offers so many free

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  there and felt my stomach sink. Wait, really? High school was easy for all ... junior college their first two years, for example, and do very well. In ... admitted here?” question in a very bad way. Everyone was ready for spring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... searched for the Boston Globe article that i knew would have been written. i found it. i read it. and then i searched for the MIT admissions blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a ... people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... each set out to do our specific reporting! For me, that involved sending ... interview somebody for a news story, we have to look at the entire situation

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013