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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier ... thing for the idea that she and her team came up with. Since (a) both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer ... . I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek ... I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  provide free 8-10 minute massages for Burton-Conner students who sign up in ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  reasons for your decisions. In addition to the brief directives provided in ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... coming back felt surprisingly different after having lived in Tokyo for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... ). Not having a board to write on in a math class threw off my flow for a ... Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... for her thesis before she starts medical school (she's up to her ears in ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend ... . I finally have a direction to move in, but for once in my life I'm not ... graduation. Where did the time go? For the first time in maybe ever, I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  and allows me to enjoy my friends for as long as they are in my life ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... , versus asking for help. There will always be people in your classes who ... .  Ignore them. There is no shame in asking for help.  The only shame is in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... , activities, awards) - we will use your QuestBridge application for that. In the ... am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... literally solved this in 2 seconds after looking at it for about 5 seconds ... that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 recent, unedited, contrasting samples of your best work for evaluation by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 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

  

  , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... of "built in" policies for flexibility with late or missing assignments ... example, if there are ten problem sets due for the class in total, your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016