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• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... term how different my ultimate choice will be, but let's just say that ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  be seen in the photo of shakshuka). i think it's kind of funny. it is a ... . "they're bamboo," the person serving me turkey tells me. "to be a little ... , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  and that I have the power to be a part of that change sounds simple ... sweetest in the Gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash ... I'm excited to see who I'll be on the other side.

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  that work," you'll be able to also join the ranks of an elite college ... begin to lose our original passion - the "fire" that powers our being ... . Through self-negation and a yearning to be "the perfect applicant," I feel

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  experience the work-life and culture of a different country. I will be living ... if I was admitted into MIT, the experience would be very challenging ... that you will never miss a home-cooked meal, because everyone in the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  perhaps next time, I won't be stuck in the train station for two hours after ... about the student population. And really, let me just say that I was completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  gifted person in the world will at some point cross a threshold where it ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... than just the way something looks.  It shouldn't just be some aesthetic

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... limit, and odds are, you’ll never have the chance to be so free ever again

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  knows that MIT will be unlike anything most of the student body has ever ... , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At ... how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not ... , following which we will drive around the Columbus area and look at Christmas ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  experience the wonder of exploring them. I don't want to be stuck in Boston ... because I can see the results of my work being implemented across all Twitch ... 's not the kind of person I think I am, nor the kind of person I want to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  classical pianist and will be one of many contributing to the opera ... coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... meandering, semi-psychopathic dream that will no doubt trudge its way into the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  is the best fit for you, and where you will truly enjoy the next four ... I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... finish this early, but GAH! (the second time this semester, fourth time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  choices can be demotivating. (You may have seen this research quoted in the ... Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only ... idiosyncratic one, and consumer theory dictates that the more choices, the better

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  . Thirdly, I will be grading for Unified, now that I'm finally done with it. I ... incorrect, and which parts were missing. I think this grading job will be ... Beyond my many jobs, I also will be continuing my main extracurricular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  80 lbs!!! Do the splits - Incomplete. Unsure if I will ever be able to ... seeing as I walk across the bridge every day. But maybe the summer will be ... adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  you coming to CPW... the Lab for Chocolate Science will be one of ... media article about LCS will run. My favorite discovery from the article ... flavor with friends and started being the host of truffle parties two years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... . The whole list can be found here 2) Uganda: My freshman year I helped ... The other day I dropped off my application to the International

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  either be the skipper, the one who holds the rudder, or you can be the crew ... ever. Remember this, it will be important later.) Webb and I went out and ... ’s got to be a better word for that kind of mood…) The gist is, if you have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  threads being pursued at once, and everyone is kept in the loop as far as ... —clearly, returning a picture of a glacier would not be an apt snapshot of the subject ... challenges that have to be solved. The first is actually being able to detect

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017