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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . 3. Minh and Lizzy asked how I found my UROP position. In the middle of ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I ... to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a ... aggressively screening e-mails (ie, not answering e-mails that I feel can be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Psh, that's not so many stairs! I'm in good shape, I can do that no ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... would be an alternate way across the river. Nope. I skated back. How about

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software ... I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... project makes me realize just how much I've learned in one year here and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  couple inches of snow can shut down everything for days, I’m super ... you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you’ve heard, but it’s cold in Boston right now. Like, really cold. Arctic tundra

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  question about art supplement. How many works I can include in my portfolio ... domestic student. Victor wrote, "I know you can include pictures in your ... . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... 's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was ... -O-N-E. I began thinking of how I would explain this to everybody, but instead ... bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Though I haven't had internet for the past week, there has still been ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat ... taught me exactly what I need and what I don’t. Much how extra stuff weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  groceries you can’t find in the US for dirt cheap. Then again, I’m biased ... needs help walking now. They raised me since I was born and stayed in the US with us until I was 14. The last time I visited them was in the 9th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... . Technically, none of us can fail a single class this semester. I distinctly ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  . I most definitely can't study in my room or anywhere close to my bed. I also can't focus if I'm studying with friends. I do message out in ... once its over, I can relax! I like to study in Pomodoro blocks, taking

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... .) *With Class of 2013 matriculation decisions due in less than three days, I ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this

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

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are ... in Silicon Valley. MIT, you can save the world. Kids in college, you can save the world.  I'll put my life on this interview right now. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019