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• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video ... New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... is what I mean: Edit: Ruth pointed this out in her comment below- it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... hurts. that pain has a name, and it is loneliness. i've been thinking ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to ... ; and in that moment I thought to myself that if my life were a movie that ... poorly, which by that point wasn't really a surprise. I could go into

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  has shown me that even if I have a problem in a totally foreign ... sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... against Brazil. I had a good cry about it and vowed that I would never ... had a great career) Which is why I celebrated with a heavy heart

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  company that my summer was totally free and I could start in the summer as a ... and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to ... 'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... : "I could've sworn that I've seen a photo entry in your blog, Ben, or ... that my school is not very active in these areas. For example, I only

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  financially comfortable in a way that I’d never even imagined. Or, I could ... these projects in the way that I know I am capable of doing. And it was ... imagined that I could do this long-term: lead a healthy, well-paced life

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... examine Mills first. Mills is a student who is defined by the world in which

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities ... interview prep. All of this is silly. Do not be like me. I’m not saying you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I ... cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  . But when I felt a bubbling feeling of frustration build in my chest, I knew that a rush of tears would soon follow.  I went through a rush of ... drove home at 3:03pm and made a mental plan of everything I wanted to do

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  majors (this post is long overdue, I know). In the mean time, if you can ... early action decisions. SIX DAYS! Six days! Man, that's a short time. When ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  leave — is that sophomore year at MIT, I met this cute aerospace ... published a paper in Science, one in Neuron, and one in Cell Reports. So I am hitching up my covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail. (Is that not how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that ... everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni ... when I was a student at MIT). I found that I enjoyed my coaching more ... one year — the EARC is our league with the Ivies and a few others). I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i ... wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about ... . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  than we do in the freshman class for you. I am troubled that if you are ... . I know that is a lie from Lord Voldemort. The main comparison that I ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... of the bad question that is, in essence, unanswerable. Now, if you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012