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• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you’re ... though you can see that they’re frustrated? But despite trying your best

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  the hard way that proving you're right rarely ever proves anything to ... your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... friendship lives on in your memories. Walk around with a smile, and the world

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one ... repeat itself semester after semester. You turn in your last pset, present your final projects, complete your final exams. You're done. You might

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  ) or can relate to it and want to talk about your experiences and ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in ... here (under "Local Opportunities," with MIT as your school). Thing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... selection. I haven’t been to these markets, but you can check them out if you’re ... at Whole Foods without breaking your budget provided you are very, very

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the weeks preceding college you’re frantically reading everything ever on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  , and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in your head suggests.) Or maybe sooner. I'm never short on inspiration

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  and never questioned them. Now you’re probably wondering how any of ... that’s what you’re thinking so I can continue with this train of thought ... look inwardly in a way that you cannot survive only justifying your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  them going, which is hard when you’re focused on keeping yourself going ... want to use my cows to wish some of your friends a happy belated Hearts Day this week, especially if you’re a grownup or otherwise not in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset button, drink tea, realign your chakra or your qi or whatever you want to ... be leaving home as you currently know it. Appreciate your home, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  -minute lesson on it! Bring your wackiest topic suggestions, and watch us ... know about ytterbium How to impress your friends with homemade poi An ... communication with your pets can predict your love life. The ethics of plastic

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

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  . Your enthusiasm comes from outside, so it is only momentary. Internal ... having fun, but your dancing will always express what you are inside ... watch!" Slackliner: "Hey, do you wanna try? Kick off your shoes and hop

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  I know what youre thinking.  You're thinking, "hey, you missed an apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a mechanical engineer anyway?"* *you're probably not thinking this, but hey it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  as a train that makes you feel like you’re on an airplane. Right now ... meetings about your preferences, MISTI will circulate your credentials among ... , giving you the chance to specifically put your resume in to apply for that

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you're ... Agent 2: Do you have DNA in your ears? Me: ....excuse me? TSA Agent 2: DNA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time ... you do what you want (or have) to do. It's the sort of thing where you're only kept awake enough not to miss your stop, yet tired enough to make

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  student center. Leave your stereotypes about MIT hygiene and fashion sense ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not ... people? All while wearing your Brass Rat? If you can't even imagine an

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  otherwise corroborated by outside sources. You say you're an excellent ... your transcript and test scores. You say you're a leader in your school community. We say great! What do your teachers and school counselors have to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  if you aren't also enjoying your work. Look. If you're smart (you probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... your job is really, really conducive to doing it very well. It's pretty

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  to blogging propriety: "Imagine you are writing a letter to your grandmother. And not your cool grandmother who has purple hair and a Harley, but rather your lovable but easily shocked grandmother who loves you very much

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011