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• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , as my academic advisor once told me: writing an essay is a process of ... . Unconvinced by my first, cursory investigation, I did a little more surveying of ... stress, punctuated by periods of trash fire or extreme joy. It felt like I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  experience. Revitalized by all of these things, I decided to take on the ... freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying ... application process was rather untraditional. We applied through our high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  reflects the Spanish culture of vivacity and energy. In Taiwan, we have ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  repaid the gift by changing, in however small of a way, yours. 💜 ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  closing in on me. Internally, my creation is often propelled by a feeling of ... art, my delight at its existence, my enjoyment of the artistic process ... There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  for my laptop and am in the process of reinstalling everything ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  't think of anithing But Nasa! So I Dicided to mak a book about Dinosaurs! So I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... crucible slipped and fell down the sleeve of my lab coat. I shrieked and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “ ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 ... classes, especially the class of 2011, are preparing to run the gauntlet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  applied."]upended by a pandemic.[/annotation] This lack of confidence was ... .   What was the application process like? CV/Resume: A list of things you have done and are in the process of doing. I made mine and then

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza ... . Here’s what I found out: Process It might look like I am sketching cows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  the physics and stochastic nature of manufacturing processes and systems ... Recitation: Friday 11 am Professors: H. Ploegh and T. Orr-Weaver Biology of cells of higher organisms: structure, function, and biosynthesis of

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  marketplace shelters, my tears replaced by the merry expectation of some ... . One of my friends Hannah joined a sorority a few weeks ago, and by a nice process of mutual selection, got assigned to a “Big Sister”, who, to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  signed by the Harvard professor, your advisor, and the director of the HASS ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends - like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  I decided. So I went through my choice of major process the same backward, idiotic way I did my choice of college process- process of ... found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  truer than the Law of Conservation of Energy.  It’s called Murphy’s Law ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013