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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 ... "]sleep,[/annotation] but lots of fun.   Allow me to explain from the beginning, though

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

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  reawaken my passion for art and related fields: I used to be really into it ... weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking ... -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  dedicating an entry to answering them. Please, if you have questions, feel free to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. I went to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  -traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... vocalist that sounded similar to Mitski. All the merchandise was expensive ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an ... . Everyone was incredibly friendly, an expert in their field (be it marketing ... running around New York trying to cram in as many experiences as I could

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT ... location: Segway Headquarters. Special guest speaker: J. Douglas Field '92

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... , a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  fields to answer fascinating questions about the world. I describe ... jobs. Poli Sci majors often move to lucrative fields such as finance ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  cellular/molecular neurobiology type, because that's her field of interest ... other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... what the different opportunities are in this field, and, more generally

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber ... market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... scarier without friends. It can simply feel awkward fumbling to navigate

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... it's good enough to take the place of all your future gifts. :-) I was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  -related UROP, but I was unsure if I should stick to my previous research field or ... it's a good way for me to try a new field. Full discloser: I am very ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024