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• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  single cent on the plane ticket. On the plane, I sat next to a Navy pilot ... , and flew back to Boston. On the plane, I sat next to an entrepreneur who ... energy crisis, you win. The path to getting respect is: work really hard on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to ... we kept stopping on the way to reflect on the beautiful view of Japan ... be left on the ground to melt into Fuji's rocks forever. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  phases: Flying from Boston to London Taking the train from London to Bristol Taking an Uber from the station to the flat I’m staying in (I could’ve taken the bus, but I didn’t want to drag my luggage all over the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  friend on the way to classes, and the perfect amount of time to let the ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the ... slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  amphibians on the island. Another option is to fight fungus with bacteria. Some ... of the Convention on Biological Diversity, world leaders committed to ... , estimates that without our efforts to mitigate our effects on the environment

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I ... writing tutor, and started work on Paper 4. I went to see her the day before ... problem-solve on your own is important, equally important is the ability to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on ... to do about it, in return. This led to the second profound moment ... material -" More nodding. "and the second is how this is going to affect me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  route to a familiar place or stopping by the Maseeh 3 lounge on my way ... returning to my roots. Instead of the traditional bi/triweekly lecture + (bi ... weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  , pushing training to the side. I didn't even plan on skating this season ... wanted to try it out back on the ice, but on my own terms. I only skated ... had to squeeze in training in the mornings, and do so on my own, without

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  time taxi-ing on the ground before it got to depart. But ultimately, I ... results![/caption] After this, we moved on to the official portion of the ... /chase car for protecting and directing the solar car, a scout car to report on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  student, I wanted to show my perspective on the fluidity of interests and ... . I found them to be more in my niche, and the hands-on experience I got ... like the material, the content is difficult to stay focused on personally

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... through classes, time goes more and more slowly, the lecturer seems to have ... three weeks of my LIFE. Okay, so, I'm not going to talk about the fact

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my ... model in MatLab. On this day, however, my second-to-last, we were all ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let ... campaign to feed and clothe the homeless. Even students on a budget are ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  myself on the ground floor of the building, pretending to be lost in the ... has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... i’ve developed the strength to cope when really bad things happen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  to take the SAT I on DEC 3rd and this is the last month I can take any ... 't get full at SAT1 and SAT2 on MATH... Is it possible to achieve the ... tendency to get left out,' she says. They 'are going to get clobbered on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  brainstorming, I’m partial to lying on the carpet in my living room floor with a ... with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of ... italics to the actual guide! For those of you unfamiliar, I've included a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  the task, I had to find 50 unique things on campus and spent a decent ... . When I couldn’t think of anything to draw on my second drawing out of ... ), there are a bunch of very tall potted plants (trees?) on either the second

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  presumably trying to make more climate-friendly choices. The second challenge ... -chip cooling, which pipes liquid to plates on different parts of the server ... is still to pass people on the way up hills, which is kinda silly but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  daugther, Sarah, also a senior, along on the trip to Endicott College. We ... .14159265358979323846 and so on. So perhaps it's fitting that MIT is home to the leading ... Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009