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• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include ... you how to fix something or just hang out. The rear rack on my bike

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  shirt for myself. Went to urgent care on my own. Took the T to Harvard ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  post. Additional thanks to my mother for more Chinese-language editing ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on ... when I first got on campus. People here were always used to being the top

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the very same Colin who was accepted to MIT on the day I was deferred ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... /technology consultant to many films, including Minority Report, The Hulk, and Æon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... original task was to see if this same logic would hold for stimulating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising ... into a blog. Thoughts like: I staff 6.031 office hours from 7 to 8 pm on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  affinity for some subject early on that they also had access to, and could ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... flashlights couldn’t write things down and had to rely on verbal communication ... xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... smell of the boxes I lived out of for weeks and the Junior Mint factory on ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... electrical architecture, or design for manufacturing. Usually focusing on ... to ride a bike for the first time. I was wobbling, even toppling over

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... to scribble here and there on my tumblr blog. But again, it was only ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... Charlie walking into Willy Wonka’s factory for the first time). I started to

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014