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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they ... departments have literally designed websites for students to find pset partners ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ; Whereas most universities force you to purchase a huge, gut-stuffing, wallet-busting, totally superfluous meal plan, MIT doesn't force you to buy a meal plan at ... ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... trying again and again to write my [annotation note="although i am very

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  and a highlighter. Make plans – but don’t force yourself to follow ... even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system ... students to become leaders, helping to accelerate high-impact, science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... there was one thing I was prepared better than anyone to do, it was to ... at chemistry or biology, or a physics genius when compared to my

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

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... two subjects (stats are here, but I happen to know they're not complete ... website is terribly confusing about the requirements for completing two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  Google Glass to help kids with autism, ADHD, and Social-Emotional Learning ... opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  bump on a force pad to unlock the gate. Pappalardo has essentially ... students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  succinct description (borrowed from the official Lose The Game website ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... long bike rides to clear your mind and “ah-ha” moments while chatting ... -oriented fitness challenge that is open to the entire MIT community. Teams are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I really appreciate how so many from the community talked to me and reached out to me. Video Games Free games to play with friends skribbl

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Even if you want to boil water really quickly, don ... for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way to be happy here. Every single student here is challenged -- they have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of ... ;? Congrats to Bryan for completing it! Bloggers have strong track record; Mitra

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend ... Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006