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• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... need to make the most of my time here. MIT gives a great deal of ... 'm very grateful that this is the stress that I have in my life, as opposed

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track ... . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... begin next Wednesday.  The Red Sox are in first place.  And MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of ... So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  experts in your field of research. As such, the best strategy is to provide ... million in prizes. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition ... talk about your research in the college application process. The TL;DR is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  people who thinks that Stata is the most hideous excuse for a building I ... adds several "hardk0re"ness points to the project, in my opinion. As ... ...that's what the person holding the camera told me to do. *shrug* In other news

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie ... logic but not the reaction. The author is trying to be offensive on ... the ground to mail to my sister. 12:30 → The T ride back is accompanied

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... - The basic gist is this- instead of going out to dinner, we’ll feed you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the following question: "What is the most important challenge facing our world

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to ... , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  to admit anyone off the wait list this year. This is only the second time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... buildings weren't in the way because I bet the sky is beautiful... and thus ... walked 19,000 steps in the process of trying to pack all my stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... beyond. My first UROP project is assisting in the creation of the first of these challenges. The topic is Assessment, and my job is to create the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... be fun to vlog the adventure, but most of the footage that I actually ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... killer from the Saw movies, right? He forces his victims to endure so much suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  's a million fun things happening in the Kendall/MIT Open Space it is ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students ... designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  actually destiny, and the reason they come to pass is because we believe in ... example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the ... , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  -deprived. Thanks to poor time management the previous days, I spent most of the rest ... was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008