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• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  us to move in right away, b) was big enough for everyone, and c) gave ... tank. I stopped in Cleveland for the night (my first time staying at a ... :30 PM that day. I remember smiling for the first time in days when I

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... shavings in my hair and sawdust on my jeans. I had grand plans for our team ... team captain, in my junior year, as well as coach for our drive team. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  stuff than in classes. So even though I wasn't writing words for the blogs ... -old-me with back problems will regret sleeping on for weeks. In a nearly ... . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  brought a stunning revelation. But I won’t ponder on it in this post, for ... element for life in all higher eukaryote organisms”... … My plane is ... . Goodbye for now, MIT. I smell freedom in the winter wind. With much

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write their own letter and not answer ... Music Geography In some countries/curriculums (for example, the British A ... secondary school (for example, an O Level teacher). In extreme circumstances

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  -controlled type you could wait for the the official letter in the mail. I'm sorry ... label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different ... 'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the ... : “For Anna Ho, Good luck in all your adventures – keep looking up.” One ... medicine, but in all science.” For Sacks, a doctor, the point is that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  go adventuring before second semester starts in February) for an ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval ... (the one in the United Kingdom, not in the United States where MIT is located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... in my life i understood what the narrator of looking for alaska must ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... down on education in America today - had some very kind words to say

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... about the perspective of an 86 year old veteran and videogamer on life in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  available in one of MIT's libraries for public viewing. ... contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has ... thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I'll provide some data about the Mittens (MIT-Tens, as coined by Stephanie in the ... Elliot!). As for the waitlist, we'll be making decisions about if we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom about a recently completed water-channel bridge in Germany. Isn't that ... current 4 million tons per year to 7 million tons of goods in 2015. Some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the ... "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  [/caption] I hadn't planned to be in Boston for the summer. Originally, I had ... all to say that I liked living in Boston for the summer because it gave ... entirely, I'm taking this time to recap what I did for the past several

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  (already very generous for a 23 year old) salary. And in that moment, I found ... live for 5 years"]top 3[/annotation] biggest research hubs in human ... somewhere in pushing through failure and showing up for something every day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025