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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... interesting to read the differences between two amazing Nigerian authors in two ... the train, the plane, to work, at lunch, in the evenings, or my personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with ... civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in terms of where I'd get the most free stuff. This turned out to be an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... experience there is what inspired me to take the other two, although I had no ... were points in the semester where I was just like “lol class is so not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly ... in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop ... 've been realizing that my strongest and most enduring interests--as in, the ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... the cells in your brain talk to each other. In other words: it allows

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... ="attachment_109829" align="alignnone" width="225"] My hair has been updated in the last ... 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  experience is that most problems are not so simple to resolve and most ... question and instead tells the reporter that the team’s goal is to work as ... strong the urge is to open emails or look at your phone or get up and take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  , all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We ... programs so I'm probably the most logical choice to talk about what the ... weekend to address those issues that are most important to you, the parent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point ... has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the ... applies to the lab, too.) "Just do it" was difficult to implement during

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... thinking about this actually for the last few years, perhaps in an effort to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to ... for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to the SAT or ACT, 3 SAT IIs: one in math, one in science, and a third SAT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech's special issue on stress is anything to go by. (If you haven't read it yet

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012