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• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  with them. I start by writing down exactly what it is that I'm afraid of ... - and am astonished by how many of those monsters, while dramatic and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  what I could possibly need any luck with, and hit by a wave of nausea, I ... place, report suspicious activity by cell phone to MIT Police 617

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  't get me wrong: I'm fascinated by aspects of all of the sciences with ... 's a much more academic that started out by learning the language of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  the technological environment in which I exist was created by him. If I ... "split" with Wozniak by telling him it was a $700 bonus, giving him "half

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  that comprise it. That "learn by doing" philosophy is probably the ... rightness. Not so in dealing with people and projects. I was surprised by the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  known as tack turns, involve turning into the wind by pushing the rudder ... managed a tack turn by wedging the slack of the rope between my knees, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  years) picture of me.Moving on, really. By now, you've probably forgotten ... you'll see what I mean. By "miserable", I mean absolutely and terribly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  don't pass by it frequently enough. :( ----- On a more cheerful note ... hospitals. A large part of this was driven by what I saw at the community

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  morning I met Nicole, wheeled the Moonbounce over to the grass by Kresge ... one person tries to go airborne and be spun by the other person

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties ... -climbing wall, by which I mean a random distributions of nubs stuck onto a wall in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  entirely be covered by furniture, and defeat the purpose of the half ... configuration I could think of, including the really stupid ones. So by the time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  the night, by flashlight, for some reason, after the stragglers have ... to this system by an Interstate Compact. Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  - either by context, word roots, or just a gut feeling. Don't ask me how you ... entirely influenced by the fact that I had fun on my high school FIRST team

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  struck by it harder than others, while others hardly notice it at all, but ... cases, you cannot do well by not going to lecture or not turning in psets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  Chemical Engineering curriculum). As an applicant, you are by no means ... of electives chosen by the student to provide in-depth study of a field

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  coming out on top by figuring out how to, I don't know, fix the boat, I ... mean by that perfectly awful metaphor is that I'm not that great at

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  major, and by this time, I knew that computer science was no longer my ... to me by the minute. Fortunately, through my work on the committee, one

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter how conservative ... Press has a nice story about "gap years" that was picked up by news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... (estimated by Mollie)? And how many of them watch TV frequently? It really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My ... treats like this one, modeled by Ling '07. This one sparked a debate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006