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• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more ... /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  check it). Is it just a mistake? Do I need to worry about it?" Matt '00 ... : "DOES MY ONLINE EARLY APPLICATION NEED TO BE SENT IN and/on RECEIVED ... 't need to come here just to deliver a DVD!). Landon asked: "I was accepted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  street. On a whim (but not before consulting the Internet), I biked to the ... middle-aged men. Cute movie, though. En route to the theater, I passed a gathering with a banner welcoming me to Louisiana. At second glance, it turned

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... Next for my first two years) and I tried to do as much as possible during ... followed a friend to attend a 2.006 (Thermal Fluids Engineering II) lecture

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer ... opportunity to help a nonprofit with a technical project, as well as a software ... fangirling the entire time. And I’ll be working with a nonprofit devoted to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... 'M WRITING A HIT SINGLE." After much deliberating over whether it was more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what ... list-based posts this fall as I would have liked, I present to you a list ... order is overrated. I went to St Petersburg This is definitely a big

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  power to drive a speaker, so I needed to create an audio amplifier to ... -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... music professor created the game. Due to time and hardware limitations

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  misalignment, I have to greet myself with kindness, to create a safe environment ... we have created a facade to protect ourselves? Online articles on self ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the ... Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really ... magical. Interacting with humans outside of my family has been a well-needed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  process for submitting teacher recommendation letters and you will need to create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My ... You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . And, as anthropology teaches us, gifts are given in order to create a ... incompatible, emotions, a few of which I want to name and honor: - Sadness that ... it is normal. It is also okay, and it is normal, to feel a sense of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  about 2001, when it finally got a much-needed makeover). In a ranking of ... township was large enough to need two high schools, there was only Middletown ... was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... college students to tell a story so vividly and intensely? It was about more ... , requires a commitment to fantasy. Yes, in this world everyone else knows the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... that much except a certain feeling of lightness; my next assignment wasn ... been doing this since our freshman year. It’s a smart idea; the goal is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the ... honestly, most of the quotes that get sent to this list have similar energies

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do ... mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore ... means that if you tell a friend you can’t talk to them right now, or can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020