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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... the various paraphernelia I was going to smuggle into graduation in ... usable; I was able to reliably holster or unholster my phone one-handed in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  phones and unplug our Ipods at key moments in the day to fully engage in ... way could be severely hampered if one is constantly in the act of doing ... needed most was to shut off the computer and to make time for the “sacred

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . The key is to notice my unhappiness as early as possible and take steps ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  admissions officers) want. I think this is what Marilee is trying to say in the ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... to show the student's passion in the sciences? I know many students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the ... most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  explored and changed course. It is okay to have been in the school orchestra ... to tell. Choose carefully! (On the other hand, in any case, there is ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  outlets to any location in your room. For some reason the outlet overlords always put outlets in the most inconvenient locations, so surge protectors ... wanted to. Now, whether or not you have the discipline NOT to is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  that you see in 80s movies, which is the primary and most powerful way ... much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was ... most developers use. To the point that on my old ThinkPad, I had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  of completion is the most satisfying way for me to feel like I ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I ... with aplomb in their attempts to woo the judges. My personal favorite was ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  taken in the spring in an online format. An initiative is underway to ... platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... allow instructors to focus on critical content in the classroom and rely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live ... this is just to say, we're both pretty bored people at the moment. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  few hours and went up to check it out. This is Brian: Over the past ... her colors to contrast these delicate celery curtains. Her room is the ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  the opportunity, we had to try to squeeze in another restaurant visit ... going to come from. But in the true spirit of work-play balance, I ... some of my best friends (plus, I got to eat some of the most delicious

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  tent in the dark, did some reading (I'm most of the way through this) and ... off the road in thickets; you slid or stumbled to get from one to the ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail ... interested and his tone is not in the least bit condescending. I smile and say

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie ... keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to ... would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023