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• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  submitted our 2,500-word preliminary report for the semester-long Design ... my awareness to power relations, infrastructure, and state building and ... Scott's Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest State, Silvia

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  this all weekend long. When we weren’t building cardboard forts or making ... American restaurant chain with more than 2,100 locations in 25 states in the United States. Waffle Haus is a breakfast event sponsored by Senior Haus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  admit that what I submitted was not my best writing by a long shot. The ... application. This groove is what people call flow or "the zone"-- a state of ... . I've found that my writing is better when I'm in a mental state

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  ? The idea had a long history. I had always noted, largely thanks to my ... experiences available in the United States. Additionally, they considered their ... United States, one had to do something differently. So I started putting

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts, two mountain ranges, and about a million different thoughts. The states ... thing ever won’t happen for a long time still, and when it does happen, I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  . We believe the word limits as stated for the essay questions in the ... exceeds our stated limit; it is your choice. We do not auto ... whether to submit it as it currently is, though. If your answer is so long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  current friends, in which we discussed the current states of our lives and how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  high school, and I had lead roles in five of them. I made all-state choir ... the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So ... me to work overtime and on holidays. The project on which I work long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  lottery, he stated that he was going to die if he didn't live on 3rd East ... going to state schools. When she arrived on campus, she found Burton One ... , but the waiting list was long and it took a year before her transfer was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  going on with the ghost's freakishly long arms, waving, waving, waving ... four states which are commonwealths. Edit for Eric: From a government perspective, it actually means absolutely nothing for a US State to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  state of mind—my average mood is more positive, the fluctuations have felt less dramatic, and most importantly, my baseline emotional state is ... ’d love to, I can’t put my mental state through a rigorous scientific

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference ... this state of being is actually fairly similar to the previous one ... to enter work-induced flow states i would wonder why i kept pursuing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  , and the Beach Boys (who started performing over 50 years ago… I felt so ... United States. But then I think about how strange the 4th of July

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  eat, let alone properly blog. But I felt guilty for a long time after ... prize of a computer and a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida ... heading into the final round. She faced the prompt, "It’s 277 miles long, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... -butter-and-jelly for the soul. With regard to long-term community service, there ... such as MATCH?” For one, MATCH is a long walk from campus. You have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  product of a week-long Mechanical Engineering pre-orientation program), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched ... -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  doing her Masters in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University ... "Talento Joven". MIT students collaborated with Costa Rican university ... athletic facilities and open water spots such as Walden Pond, Nahant beach

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  uber pool to get there. work to the beach [caption id="attachment_45138" align="aligncenter" width="750"] walking to the beach from work is a bit ... so close to the beach when i was planning my summer from back in boston

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... long? Learn from Singapore Airline, guys. (or maybe you just have to fly ... airplane longer on an already long flight. Recently, I finally realized the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009