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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  subject of the contract (some land being given to monks from Pontigny ... "]vellum.[/annotation]Over time, the vellum fell apart, and all the little pieces of it were hard to ... try to analyze the wording of the contracts and draw some useful

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... 't immediately say yes, but rather asked if I can have time to think about it ... fancy restaurant! To say the least, it was absolutely delicious… like don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it.) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... point. But really, do it because it’s the best way to learn about your ... been the best skill I learned in college. To acquire it, join a student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... going to appreciate the 1-3 hours it frees up every night because of all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... "). Today, my plan is to just grab the food and put it in the fridge to eat ... into the room (although to be honest it's hard to sneak into an eight

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text ... to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be ... on it. Plus, I wanted to be able to use the empty space underneath the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it through, even if it isn’t perfect, and not give up the mission. And things ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time ... MIT I found out recently that it’s possible to UROP off-campus: at the ... -planting), which brings me to my next point: Be ready to fight for it. If you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  he thought I could succeed at either, but that if I went to the local ... . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... future because there's nothing there to see; it hasn't been built, yet. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... the opportunity, but rather to fully capitalize on it. As much as I ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... -state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  : Throughout the survey I also put text boxes to write down any thoughts. If ... 't really matter if the personality is a match. I want to own a real live pig ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  ," he said, before telling me to call the Johns Hopkins admissions office ... 's because of that one bad grade! It's because I didn't have time to take the ... why. If you're so sure that it was That One Thing, the healthiest thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  if I were to do it again: 1. make the dragon more dragon-like I would ... head is also a weight to counter-balance the sword and make it more ... and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... . 23. It's important to think about the future, but it's more important

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad ... something different, and I didn't know what to do. In the end, I figured it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  you to reflect on it if you've ever felt the same way. Let's say that ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014