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• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  in myself. If I didn’t let myself try my best for fear of failing. If I ... papers for teachers—hell, I used to do so in my second grade class during ... school. To learn that it was okay for me to exist in this space in the ways

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... busy receiving the Nobel Prize in Mathematics for being so right about ... yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for ... Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... ’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... the ice and prepare for an hour of sounding silly in front of one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  friends I’ve made in MIT this semester. Before she and I actually spoke for ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  weird. 4. Tuesday Nov 6: I voted in the presidential election for the ... come up with a relatively elaborate menu. I paid in sleep for not doing ... and asked for a ride. Only two of us were allowed in the actual ward, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This ... able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  No one marks you five minutes[annotation note=" in MIT time, classes ... mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  phones back in Cambridge that we've gotten some inquiries about our essay prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where ... observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  thing we had recitation afterward). In short, thanks for being an awesome ... This entry from Elizabeth in 2010 has been re-posted in celebration ... tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  in Johnson for the procession. And their parents filing in were greeted ... They say that today's graduation theme was "MIT students in service ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm ... semester for me). Anyways, that's why I'm back. Also, I really like poems

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Pennsylvania, so I was in for quite a shock when I started meeting people from ... and if you ever stole anything in your life, you should confess now ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... for somebody who has caught me while I was falling? But there are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  who is your point of contact for anything that you don't understand in ... scheduled supervision #2 for some day in week 5. However you realize, the day ... flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007