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• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  direction, then his steps will tend to go in that direction and he will go a distance proportional to n. In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large… a vision will get you a distance proportional to n, while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  note="and yes, that's a reason to be honest in your interviews. being ... recruitment cycle to a dating app. except unlike a dating app, when you get ... .031, elements of software construction, dubbed as how not to get fired in industry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I could take you in a fight is that while you're worshipping at the altar of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share ... /recipe]]). Preheat your oven to 449.82 Kelvins (350 degrees Fahrenheit). In our case we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in ... to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to ... Here, we get the minimal pair tama na and tahan na. This is a bit hard to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it ... gets done, but you worry some, I know But who wants to live forever, babe ... TSAI wish I could go along, babe, don't get me wrong You know you're

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15, wrote that prodigious children need to develop a "reasonably thick skin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  how to use a machine, and they also put in the underappreciated work of ... cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat ... advising, a non-credit option in which advisees simply meet with their

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . We split in to groups and designed objects meant to fix a problem in ... . Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  was alight with chatter: it was obviously going to be a vicious battle for tickets. Olivia was a teenage wunderkind who had somehow managed to strike something intimate in everyone. I was hesitant to attend the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  finally switched over to a bus to get to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where ... stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  researcher, you can get obsessed with and trapped in your little specialty ... , which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size ... exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous ... put words to it in a very belated blog post"]second time ... events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']Like you’re already in a Misti right[/annotation] omg so real This is for summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating ... ']sunrise[/annotation]happening? 7 terrace ❤️​ to “ 7 terrace ” Do you want me to wake you if you’re

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  usually get a small soup or entree to go with my gargantuan plate of rice ... sandwiches and stuff are a little expensive unless you're really in a hurry ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... swear! I went to [REDACTED] lectures. (lmaooooo jk i'm a great student

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020