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• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  , a mall in Buena Park that cool and hip teens go to. I decided it was a ... didn't get in a car accident. Then I drove home. And I felt as if that ... things can change in the span of a year. I can't help but think of how much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they ... with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... to figure out what to do about that but for now I have broken metal

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  turned in a problem set that was 47 pages long. CPW rocked it, yo. Special ... of art as "The Thong Song" is, I personally think that it was simply ... top of it. So I woke up Monday morning to find that there was a five

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  you to do a pset in a class that's easy for you, like 8.02, vs. a class ... people feel that way. That's why I like the math that I do in physics- I ... keep in mind that as soon as you touch something contaminated (with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  . Were. Hard. Resigned that I was going to be here a while, I settled in ... yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... a telling laugh my first introduction to psets, and realized that I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't think I've seen a snake that big, except maybe in the zoo. Or in the first ... And you, you need a beard" While The Beards insisted that there is "No ... armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I ... get over how cool it is that the Pilgrims might have gotten off their

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  actually enjoyed doing it, despite the very obvious fact that I spent all ... , I still got a nice loaf. I'm not sure what the point of this entry is ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  -harvard pigeon pavlov hack? that one’s my favorite). the mit i now know is a world ... is cool. I've heard that MIT is unique in its vibrant but nerdy ... nerd, this is cool. I've heard that MIT is unique in its vibrant but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... 's false humility with a point. My case illustrates how success is always ... fortunate. This is the point I tried to make in my blog post Life is Improv

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... to his craft. This is how you write a fabulous college essay. "What ... learning how you write a blog entry." That too. But it has double meaning (oh

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... attempt at a story occurred in grade four. I wrote an 84-paged tale titled ... in my cluelessness. I had no idea I was such a terrible writer, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... rejected so that the emotion wouldn’t come as a shock. I told my parents that ... the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  by working in lab). I have yet to see a university that is so ... hypothesis. In a sense, I guess I can say that I truly felt like a real ... all the time that I have been spending in lab (I started keeping a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  how awkward my body is. My stance is haphazard. What do I do with my ... that I am lucky to live in a culture where these kinds of conversations ... beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  fun people that I have ever met. Andrea Campos is a senior Course 15 ... interview. I know that you are really busy and involved in a bunch of things ... campus, I lived in La Casa Castellana (Spanish House), which is a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission ... that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff ... 1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010