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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... make a life's goal in which I attend a rally for each presidential ... him and Ted Kennedy speak to make up for it or something - Caroline

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  a new character from the video game Dynasty Warriors 5 for PS2. Her ... this website." After checking out the links, I was pretty sold on Xing ... -armored person is Shadow Moon for Kamen Rider. See this link. I believe that solves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... statistics are freely available on the MIT website. What are the early action ... for admission, and there are no minimum test scores. Test scores are one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time.” “But I am not cool.”     “I am not cool. Not enough for ... All the Trojan beliefs that have haunted me for years. And no one I

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  didn't settle well with me. Fast forward two years, and I'm experiencing ... goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a formula for success. Ya know the big ol' "what makes someone successful?" Up

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... experience in industry. But I still had nothing going for me over the summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• 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 my final semester without taking any classes elsewhere. I signed up for ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes ... injuring 17. The news spread fast, wildfire chased by the wind. I was talking

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  come across an open area, which you saw on the map and devised a plan for ... fast as they can. You consider yourself lucky, at least no one was hit ... us for the day when we may have to take out a real enemy bunker. We put

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth ... meals on her own for herself and her two brothers. I wouldn't have ... CK '10 with a welcome ceremony for all our campers, in which counselors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... interpreter training system for Mandarin speakers, and help more critical-need Chinese cancer patients apply to treatment subsidies or apply for insurance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear ... points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you ... questions we have. Same goes for physics. The kind upperclassman will almost inevitably reach for a whiteboard marker, which is why I've never seen a blank

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6.004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... . My TA had suggested that we budget nine hours for it. Ha. Hahaha. She

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  /train ride over to Philadelphia for a fully-packed 3-day fraternity leadership ... semester except for the occasional iced coffee with so much milk and sugar it ... . Weekends are for recharging. Where are you, PNR? *hosed: in a constant

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February ... ..Typescript) and I did learn Latex for 6.042! The next couple of ones are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  line for all of our posters, brochures, website, etc. After many car ... ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  apprehensive about joining a lab for the first time. I thought, “Wow, so many ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get_a_urop. Instead, clueless and confused, I asked for advice from upperclassmen who ... Facts website, 88 percent of the student population will have participated

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... indication, then for all intents and purposes, I was stressed out. It doesn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014