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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sketchbooks and paints behind and to dive headlong into four years of SCIENCE ... art's an important part of your life now, it can be an important part of ... AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... into. I'm emailing today of all days because something a little crazy

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

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... marbles this year. You know that it is important that you take proper time ... case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  wanted to take this entry to assure you of one vitally important fact ... , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  part of my proposal was an outline to turn the portal into more of a ... Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  ). Item the third: The importance of revolving doors. Remember that one ... the script of every episode of Futurama. (You know, important things ... , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  finding and forming this kind of community so important? Simple. It ... ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  into STEM education. But more importantly than that, Mary got off the ... into the highest paying job you can find because it's there. Earlier ... engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She pursued a career

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can ... which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... the familiar faces you have grown accustomed to? Most importantly, would

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since ... with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and ... of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody, but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... -in-law, yay!), who has three pieces of advice which he applies to every

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  of the world’s most important centers of information technology ... When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... important! Everything (well, almost) is important, and some of them might ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the ... couple of weeks. I thought that maybe if I threw myself into every activity ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  communities and/or society at large. I ran into one of these opportunities a ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was ... Miller, was out of town today, so the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  run-in: I ran into Bryan yesterday on the fifth floor of the Student ... information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... , who got her master's in aero/astro last spring. (Yes, two of the people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you ... sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fraternities, they start growing into the personalities and the character of the ... fraternity?) Although "growing into the personality of the fraternity" sounds ... 's not fair to categorize fraternal life into one big stereotype, whatever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  -masted frigate that played an important role in the war of 1812. It was built in ... decided to take Hubways back into downtown. For those of you who don’t know ... small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017