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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... 't live in a vacuum, and it's stressful to waste energy and time on ... sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... “girly girls” were smart. When I grew up a little I started to feel the ... ’m constantly wondering what things really mean--what does it mean to be a woman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The ... the ring bezel. After much debate, the committee decided to adorn the ... bids for the very lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  Cavity” to show me how much more I need to learn and make me okay with that ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from ... into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I ... have a lot of energy, and that seems to really resonate with their ... or something, because I'm going to need a lot more practice on

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard ... decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a three ... York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin. We first thought

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  to be hosed trying to prove that 1+1 does not equal the set of ... I ever invite you to a potluck.” Shortly after- K: Your salad right now has too much lettuce. It needs garnish. Y: Yeah, well, your salad

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  's a lot of evil and negative energy to hold on to, and I'm happy I ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  's taught me to think from a technical perspective, and it's much easier to ... Apprentice. Jennifer Johnson '98 decided not to sign a contract to appear on ... Microsoft, but has since moved to Las Vegas, where he became a professional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  asked Justin to write a little guest entry too, so he wrote a really nice ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  hindsight, I see their point; I spent a lot of energy trying to maintain this ... order to satisfy my identity as a shy-smart-nerdy-pants-girl. I truly don ... capabilities, so I felt the need to subscribe to a stereotype. But here at MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  Hockfield argues that funding energy research is a smart investment, I think ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... need today, and the determination to take full advantage of it. Through

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls ... , dorm residents would be fined if they so much as stuck a tack in the wall

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  the human person could be feeling meh. To add that, we simple create a ... and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this ... his post as much as I did!    As far as I can tell, making a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  -taught dancers I've met throughout my life, seems to be a pretty common experience ... because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too ... . obviously, I don't have the time to watch them all, so I've developed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  students who are being shut out, whether it's a smart American kid who has to ... "smart American kid who has to opt for a solid state school when they had ... credible answers to a few questions that the painfully shallow news coverage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  under a "veil of ignorance" as to who they are and then asked to create a ... enact in order to best pursue a successful economy? Or more ... subject interesting. It seems totally fundamentally human to possess a basic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  need to go to a regional event and see for yourself. FIRST might just be ... , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... their own modifications and designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  . Going through the bills much later, I had a chance to Google-check the ... quite a bit of experience with Medical due to my training as a Medlink; so ... for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... don’t run into any issues on Saturday. If you need to reset your ... still need help after that, feel free to email [email protected] and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023