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• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall, making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  like stepping confidently into the center of a deep puddle, knowing your boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... 18. get it?) The value of i choose 18 is (34376687 + 1499084559 i

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the ... of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist ... mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate ... degrees (celsius), with the daily mean being 28 degrees. in the summers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  degree of proficiency once they're here. Personally, I'm not really all ... The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... it that time of year already? What was going wrong with me? I went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  like that shade of Blue/Green, btw. Evan replied: Adam - different dorms ... ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... out what parts of the brain process which visual cues. The conference ... talk sessions all running concurrently. Part of the schedule for last

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  because there was a fake statue of David like 100 feet away. There is ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006