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• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... the year, talked to some of the students, expressed interest, and ... activities. I don't know of any other school that does that... and IAP is cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... go and machine the part. So I came to 2.008, Manufacturing and Design

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  is tricky, because thin metal melts much faster, and it's easy to burn ... frame and lights around the edges to create a lamp for daughter. He ... process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to ... the country SUMMER Flew back to the US and started my summer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  had when you came to MIT. 2. What the majors are and how much they ... , trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he ... ever. He said they're totally lost and can't talk to people and all they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a ... ’s pretty much the pivotal element to many Orientation events. Believe it or

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  room, and every laptop has a browser open to either google ... up and announces to the room that they were right, and everyone cheers ... . They had no idea what to do with all of this, and after hours of feeling

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  . And I refuse to respect any other opinion. Kidding! Seriously though, I ... actually gave me something interesting to do, considering I'm an ex-con and ... on your ceiling just to keep things from getting too crazy and then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill ... . I sat and cheered with everyone else, trying to process what I was ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... the project my postdoc and I have been working on to the entire Picower Center. And since my postdoc is an MD/PhD and goes to the hospital on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  finished packing and headed to work ready to jump on the first bus after 5 ... back to the bean Pre-Entre Salad: To begin my much needed #springbreak ... assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... photographer and managed to convince me that the photos at the end make the show ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  of how close I was to starting over, and HOW INCREDIBLY MUCH I'VE YET ... this to myself over and over this semester, this thought always has questions to follow. Should I stay up to finish my pset tonight and then feel

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  granted -- it's a joy to have so much free time dedicated to learning, and ... 't get paid, but one day, you'll get paid and not have much time to learn ... relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  have to be accepting of who I once was as much as who I am. I signed up to   do this, and it comes with unique growing pains. I think that ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Concert. Once again, the MIT radio station was able to patch in (and archive ... up-and-coming three-member indie band from Seattle to play. Nirvana ... ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it ... Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... try to keep some perspective when it comes to life and disappointments

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  6.00"]6.0001 and 6.0002.[/annotation] I happened to be working as an ... of those students was Denisse. To be honest, I don't remember much ... , making the walk almost unbearable as we sweated and struggled to carry the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... progression, built a sturdy resume, and began to look toward the next chapter ... channeled to the Muti water project as an undergrad, and now use on the alumni

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... have screwed up. At first, my tired brain tried to ignore the noise and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019