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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  , hire a professional agency to take on this project—and I am very much not ... . This was much to the disappointment of several the sticker-obsessed ’24s ... once we’re all back. 2020 For me, design is as much about letting go

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  't know about it as much as I did computer science, so I wanted to be "safe ... I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised not to read until I had graduated. Having unearthed it from beneath the

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , would be able to handle anything (Boston was designed for horses and never ... drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  only does he admit us to MIT, he actually really cares about us after we ... .  Another group shot.To be honest, this was pretty much the highlight of my ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  very least, the roads. Each time, I winced at the effort I'd need to put ... before 7 - much to my surprise. I had made this the day on which I'd start ... Academy and MIT alumnus, touched upon many compelling anecdotes and much

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a ... much attention to these statistics. This June, I attended the National ... ’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s that we need to get the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  her to know how much I had earned from art commissions. “Is it more ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... admitted to intrusive thoughts about sipping some media! Before I say ... these, and you should definitely not take this as an endorsement to chug

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... to provide her own answer). Sara Campbell asked "It's cool that MIT has so many food opportunities, but do you feel that it causes people to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  problem that occurs when everybody wants to come to your site all at once ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes

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

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  314.   III) August 26th, 2021 Once I got to MIT, I met more ... classmates. The transition to college is hard. There's no need to rush it. I ... In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  little time, and too much pain, to think about what was happening. A few ... underarms say: forget about it. It does feel good to be so sore. I obviously ... am, I have Astrophysics lecture, so I scurry from the Z-Center to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  finals when I was already burnt out, but still needed to cram. Some of it ... said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who wished to somehow alleviate my IHTFP feelings (then negative) but couldn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  of thing much more now! I tried to do research really hard. I grinded ... fallbacks of depending too much. I learned to be happier on my own, and ... artistic experiences. I have a much better model of what it means to be a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  travelling halfway around the world. You need to challenge yourself in order to ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013