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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  skeptics out there), I can’t say whether or not MIT is unique in its ... another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came ... products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  up going in very interesting directions. I almost wish I’d had an older ... This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  sauce came from a can; how he counted in Spanish when he went up the rows ... off. During fall the producer and I met up intermittently in different ... same. I started going out with strangers when I was eighteen. I was in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  activities, so I didn’t participate in it, but seeing how much fun everyone had ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. He ... Name I Will Insert Here After Someone Recognizes Him in the Comments

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  the people who were juniors in my freshman year, i can only laugh at the ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  District (where I buy hair dye when I put green streaks in my hair every so ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt ... me (with my hair down - it's usually in a ponytail). I've decided that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the ... correctly, which can cause muscle convulsions. So where does EquiTemp come in ... rode a few years back along the shores of a beach in Nigeria. By rode, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  with self-censoring properties. How do you contain something you can ... listening. "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief ... call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... workings of my brain. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m enrolled in 24.09 Minds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  how i managed to slide in"]seniors[/annotation]. i'm starting to gestate ... basically the first day of school. i can't tell you how many jobs i've applied to already, or how many i'm going to frantically apply to in the week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  I saw. 60. Want to know how to say "Yes, We Can" in Japanese? It has ... Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... and the sushi rice in a bed at the bottom. I personally feel this is a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  put to very good use this quarantine, where i can run for hours in cold ... in terms of distance i can run. currently my peak is 9 miles. by the ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... quest with friends in Baldur’s Gate 3 fill my heart gauge with energy. I ... sophomore. I’m crashing in Tokyo with a friend I made through inline skating

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... suggestions for me? A: I know that the application process can be really nerve racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  would prevent me from going broke, but what? I was already so busy, how ... two jobs (and doing a varsity sport). I maintain my sanity and so can ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  out? As engineers and designers, how can we do social good in the ... the same man. Exercises in Style (60k words). I've written about this ... monster." "That's how you can tell." Demon (≈72k words). Content warning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  area clients. i can't even begin to summarize everything i learned this semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014