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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  , and take what comfort I can from the knowledge that I was gone but certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... illusion. I would like to find an astronomer to talk to. I think how people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , so I guess I'll find out how much I've learned pretty soon. [In case ... of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to ... huge difference in the opinion of Next House - which, like I said, I love

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  , you can major in anything you want. I think it would be very unfortunate ... situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of ... perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of ... that you can always send in any materials you wish regardless of if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  Bridge:     When I bike back home in the afternoon, I have ... ; Usually, I'm biking home in the sweet spot of post-rush hour and pre ... . Somehow, there was no traffic coming. My bike was on its side in the road. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  .” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I ... MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly ... time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  screening. Yes, this made me feel very special. How often can you say you ... movie in a room full of fans. The moment the movie started I heard squeals ... the range of emotions this film made me feel, I: physically recoiled in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  they did, and so I recounted my experiences learning how to cook and bake, and gardening as a child, and why I loved both and how they’d shaped me ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of ... year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think ... tranquility I have ever felt is here, in the eye of the hurricane.   10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... reasons. Reason #1 (a.k.a. the 'good' one): I was a debater in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• 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 ... CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... how people can continue to believe that MIT students are completely one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... aerospace education. There was a moment which stuck in my mind. I was ... exactly what he said (there will be videos online later), but I remember how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... she has ended up in her worst timeline. Though meant to be comedic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all. What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  the field is completely different. I might have been in over my head ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... graduated, and their assistance has been invaluable. I can’t really say that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT ... no home and no place and no thing that is perfect. I love MIT in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016