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• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  fulfilling work, if I ever get a handle on it myself. I said this to my mom ... , wait—” “Your dad and I used to play on that set.” “Was it your first ... that. Also, my little sister just got permission to get her first tattoo

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  see your name in print.     On Friday I flew to DC for a ... world, who they want to become, and how to get from the former to the ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... of the biggest classrooms on campus, 26-100, and the set was going to ... of pressure on herself to succeed. She sings “Breathe” as a way to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... . It meant that I got to work on something that I got excited just ... learned how to communicate scientific results and how to develop experiments

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  than your average student activity. Its primary purpose is to prepare MIT ... military, but there are opportunities for international students to get ... assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  chances to boost your grade and less pressure on the final. Also, there are ... . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the ... semester, and there aren't any previous Course 6 exchanges to rely on for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  place to get everything done on time. But even before you begin to devise ... interview!!! With everything going on, don’t forget to schedule your MIT ... . You don’t necessarily have to be getting straight As in all of your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... having difficulty choosing a major was "How do you know you want to do all ... Obviously I don't have to be good at these things, or even know how to do them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  learn how to pay bills. She plans to work on campus. She wonders about who ... them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room ... Institute of Technology. Ask about Belinda's daughter and you're guaranteed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  . Theoretically, I had a weekend to work on all of it. But, that Thursday and Friday ... , and still didn't get through all the companies I wanted to talk to. Also ... The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on ... fleeting concept now.’ i talked about how selfish i had to be to change and expect home to stay exactly the way i left it, how greedy to want multiple

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’ ... counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  questions, it helps to understand how the computer/phone/smart fridge you’re ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to ... [annotation note="Joe, if you’re reading this, Fatema asked me to ask you to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  could get my hands on. I loved (and love) learning with every fiber of my ... blossoming grief in my chest had worn off, [/annotation]I began to focus on the ... tube. I like to sit on the rocks near the Charles, crouch down so I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  sentences into a story about how i was late to class and it's bad. well ... note="i left next house at 9:50, it takes about 15 minutes to get to ... ."]rate[/annotation], but i might as well try to get there sooner than later. [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  selective a college was because I knew that some would be harder to get into ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... important if I was to find the right matches for me. I couldn't rely on rumors

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  typically to get some food and talk with friends. 21G.704 (1pm-2pm) This is ... the greatest at Spanish. It's nice to be in an environment that works on ... help kiddos. I know how rough coding can be, especially when you're

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  time better (thanks, iCalendar) and how to use a mop (apparently you're ... was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided ... . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... Hampshire to ski down a 4,000 foot mountain. Your call! A few days before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... side-effect from being here for so long - you become tethered to your ... assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010