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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  vegetarians it's wrapped in a bacon weave and the recipe is from a guy named ... bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Hamlet is Shakespeare's most difficult play, as well as the greatest thing ever written in the English language, nobody has ever even come close to ... Starbucks company policy to take pictures in the store. I joked that it was

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

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... within a 0.25 mile radius haha. This is the meal I ate most: a turkey ... those lazy to watch, the tldr; is: I used a text-generating neural network

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to ... in La Sala and headed back to 3-107. Note to Caltech students: the note

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... how every single thing in the Gamble House is rounded (even the mf ... look (which I mostly managed to refine in later iterations).  

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in the prior chord and then resolve it downward to create the most pleasant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  . Often, the story of your research involvement is much more interesting to ... admissions folder. 3. In theory, there is no absolute limit to the number of ... maintaining an A in that subject. Is the growth enough to balance out the intial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  idea of it was much different from actually committing to it. I spent the ... department we are in, so similar to MIT, there is an focus on exploring other ... them. I'm hoping to get most of the classes and credits to transfer over

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... adventurer from the desert who speaks music and Japanese and is never afraid to ... is Stan Gill. I was born in the liberal, temperate region known as the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here

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

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... , receive what might be called Technology Review++, that is, the usual ... . The highlight for many alums is the "Class Notes" section, a regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... to the test. This is the pit area- where teams keep their robot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  max throttle, trying to connect the dots and synthesize as much as I can ... want to be deliberate in the opportunities to which I say yes, or no, and ... biology, activism, and philanthropy. The brunch is organized in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... miles! 1. Stars and Stripes cow Boston is in the middle of a Cow Parade ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  same is much easier than trying to do the same in the middle of the year ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... practice that is meant to bring good luck which entails being the first to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  -filling-out-frustrations in the comment section if you want to!"]paragraphs. [/annotation] We ... . Obsessively Listening to Jennifer Hudson singing Memory in the Cats Trailer We ... Musical at the most recent Tony Awards and it is Fantastic. It's a twist on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to ... Spending a lot of time in the Unified Lounge (Unified is a course 16 class ... speakers coming in thoroughout the week to cover disciplines that were not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... . Although most of the coordinating for our parties is done by our social chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008