Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  . It's pretty awesome, not gonna lie. It's also kind of crazy to be able ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me ... people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... waiting. It is okay to feel upset; I certainly don’t think it’s healthy to ... the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  . It probably is dangerous, the way I talk to people. I have the ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation ... bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  it wasn't worth it to listen to them when you could just listen to ... . The location of the trip is always somehow related to the problem that ... important it was to talk to strangers, not just about what they do to conserve

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to ... Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to ... food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  beautiful than it already is.    So, taking all this, I’ve started to ... to remember that life is not absolute. It’s dynamic. It’s beautiful. It’s ... lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  concurrent viewership started to blow up to the 400,000+ range."]it blew up ... some of these panels. Coming in to the weekend I knew it was going to be ... I told her how much it meant to me to see women in the gaming space. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  problems at all. As it came around the final turn to approach the finish line ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick ... it best to start with a modern day adventure story about a company that ... My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to ... jacket. Looks like CPW is going to be chilly and occasionally rainy (see

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students ... this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  acknowledging that it is possible for anything to hurt you enough to make you cry ... always have. It’s strange to feel as though some version of yourself is ... satisfaction of acquiring knowledge, and the opportunity to use it. It is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  this blog explaining why WISE is amazing.      Applying to WISE ... decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to happen today because classes start on Monday which is, believe it or ... timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I ... almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  from home -- but for now, MIT, it is so nice to meet you. Let's be good ... this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already ... laundry to clean it out.) I've been reading the blogs since elementary

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  times, it takes years to understand what MIT truly is. The same goes for ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... consultant? And who is to say that her interests didn’t bend into a different

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... the strength to fill it, so all I can do is try to block it out. Like ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i ... control required to ignore something is hard. i know i find it hard. so i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022