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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  feel like you have succeeded. So how should I be defining success in my ... 've hit success. So how can I possibly know that I'm making decisions for the right reasons? How do I know I'm not "sheeping" along in life

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... -pop because lord knows how many dances I learned between 4th and 7th grade ... throughout my life, so they're pretty great how do I find dances? this is a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  opprotunities? A generic answer is "Judging them in their 'contexts'", but how do ... can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  Patriot’s Day on Monday (can anyone say “Boston Marathon” ... and Sam ran it together in 2006). We also got Tuesday off because MIT is ... so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Earlier this year, I blogged about how we are redesigning ... blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... thought about this, I kept on thinking about how student projects like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... 're interested in. You can start a UROP as a freshman, first semester, by just ... to know about you, not about how much crap you can shove into your day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all ... mostly-freshman GIR (General Institute Requirement) I can no longer ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for ... INSIDE" in Helvetica Bold Condensed. At first, I thought that the "FIRE ... Arial; we can tell even if it's blurry. Its header, "Facilities", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about ... get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  can we make sure that supplementary materials were received? I sent in ... interested in blogging as well for the admissions office, where can I get more ... each, how can I include all three scores? BTW College board has sent MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  believe me when I tell them how ridiculous it looks. The stairs to Senior ... Yesterday I carried my camera around all day and took awkward ... other days when I carry my camera around all day and take awkward pictures

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... can answer many questions. For those driving to campus: I've been living in Boston for 12 years now, and I don't own a car, and for good reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and how many weeks are in a year I learned that MEAD envelopes with ... 'm sitting here, freaking out about how I didn't "get in." Well guess what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T-Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018