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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... 's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I ... defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... planning on playing in college. My dad had never considered the fact that I ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ." And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying ... , meaning that I was able to start math "a year" ahead in differential ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to ... about it all. it's just what is known as math complexity i believe that a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it ... Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in ... elusive. I work in a lab in the Soroka Medical Center, which is across the ... I want to do that. It’s also a time to finish up projects, work out

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  was so cold that I had to stop to warm up on a grate blowing out hot air ... 'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... that she'd take care of me when I'd get a sinus infection I'd never had

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will learn in college is The Value of Friendship. I have a friend ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... into your lives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... ! You know, things like that. Change is a good thing. As a freshman, I ... hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... -shirts, and that’s only counting the ones that I wear on a semi-frequent basis

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... not a great deal of fun*)... how's life in your corner of the world ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  , before I’d acted in a way that defined me. There’s this reading I did at ... to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think…  ‘I was worthy ... but that portrait.” Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism Can I claim

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the ... and in doing so I was not a part of us. When I first got into MIT, I ... in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019