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• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... , and finally hopped on an Uber to the airport with my parents. [caption

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  pretty much every major, and Admissions really does their best to pair each ... Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... - academic, athletic, and/or extra-curricular. In addition to providing you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... will happen to the Earth once the rabbit population collectively weighs ... musician. I tried to listen to one of his songs and I ended up listening to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  demonstrated it once and encouraged her to just play with it. Daymé says that his ... , to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  crisis staff and logistical stuff. For this conference, I was able to vice ... is easy. Generally, you just sign on to the MIT MUN mailing list, and ... (x) + overinflated-ego(x) = sadness, depression, and great gnashing of teeth, once x

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... computer, and found an e-mail that read: "Professor Alan Guth has agreed to ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  just beginning and he couldn't wait to see it all unfold. Here, he would forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his ... , bureaucracy, and litigation. A trip to the department of medical records proved

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to ... and lead to big wins. Momentum attracts good people, and makes people

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this ... friends to do things that i want/need to do and sometimes they will say yes ... friends for advice. they are smart people and often know what to do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and ... kitchens. It was a really cute and unique experience that would be hard to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... started to seem more and more doable. I'm really looking forward to learning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  and go back to sleep. 9:15 AM: My second alarm goes off. This time, I ... put on my jacket, shove my books and laptop into my bag, and I try to ... it to class, which is just across the road and up a flight of stairs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  shirt and dark gray pants. I should stop now before I sound too much like ... laptop?? Does anyone else still read books, or do you all have Kindles??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more ... to re-emphasize, stands for My Roommate Neha, and does NOT mean that ... know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  unjaded by the responsibilities and consequences of adult life. As much as ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... careerists, and I’d like to avoid careerists. Or, as Eric put it, “These ... . And did I really want to grind during senior spring, especially when I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA ... that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write ... i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006