Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  be graduated.” And once he was “required to explain absence from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... ’m around people for long periods of time and need to spend a sizable amount ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... did not want to win this year. Much that we had losecomm, a whole ... To..., ❤️ & ☮️, and Does Any Kid Still Do This Anymore? I passed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... true. I really need to do laundry, which means that all my usual shirts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work ... motivate myself to care about what I’m learning when there’s just so much ... constant tab of how much time I have left to finish an assignment before I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  unexpected four-figure bill shrouded in paperwork that needed to be paid ASAP ... enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it ... happened all at once in the 16.07 classroom. We choose to go to the moon ... Cube’s cameras need to point towards the ocean. To point its cameras at the ocean

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... much as I wanted to. Have you packed your things? Not as much as I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT ... too busy trying not to drink too much chlorine. Ultimately, on a purely ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... need to be, a place I like being. It's trying to find the optimal balance ... history as contingency is too much for the human spirit to bear. And yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  does. But because of COVID-19, my ability to run an in-person study where ... words about the numbers that I see. I still need to practice the ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  . There’s a planning committee—it handles everything from invitations to ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... us about what you wanted/needed and to convince my bosses that we

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  homes they cherish so much that they fight fiercely to protect them ... has a lot of memorabilia that we needed to figure out how to store ... scheduled to close on March 23rd, but since there was so much confusion, its

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... needed for this trial. (Would also love to participate) Kano: vasss i would ... Pao, Pad Kraprow, etc. "]pakaprow.[/annotation]I love it so much that it

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023