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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which is often, I can escape into my room or a quiet place and when I don ... happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  out and protest in a rally (and I have done so), but that my action was ... do things that will make a real difference. When I first wrote this, I ... -President. By the time this is published, I will no longer be in that office, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... do is not ask at all and just have a vague worry hanging over your head

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... succulence that look like they could have come out of my garden in L.A ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  the campus itself and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a ... from parents is, "what events should I attend with my child?" In truth ... mother’s first comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a ... i eliminate all the things that are different about me and how do i be ... nagging that i wasn’t doing enough, that i was a disappointment, that i wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... in a second draft that I'm not entirely ready to call "done." As such ... their extended family in China, and touches on a lot of themes I find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  is the WRONG. APPROACH. NO. DON'T DO THAT. I think I sort of had that ... here is smart and nerdy. And that's a really good thing, I think. A ... in October, and it was important to me for a lot of reasons that I ace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  'm motivated to do at the moment. But half the time I give up and take a nap in ... Tuesday evening with a breakdown in Walker Memorial, and when I got back, I ... Tuesday night was fading, and though I knew logically in my head, that I had

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with ... Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot ... communist China. I'm proud to represent her at another tech school a bit to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that ... . They tell me I do have experiences. Like a fish in water I've missed them ... wondering is that if I looked a little different would his assumptions have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  question is: Ok, I guess... As a quick reminder my current schedule is ... ;   But that's ok! While this schedule is a struggle, it actually fits ... ://giphy.com/gifs/IQ47VvDzlzx9S/links   Ah, I don't remember :( but I do have a blog

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Brass Rat is that it marries you to the Institute. I loved all of the ... reading that email. I was sitting in my childhood bedroom, emotionally ... in my time away. They were a reminder of the lively campus I once knew

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  in this screenshot. I like to keep count of how many steps I take a day ... potato on a certain day.   9/15/23I do wish I had a river view in my ... /22/23In a rare showing of me being mildly responsible, I made dinner that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a ... feeling it. In all honesty that is how most all of my writing goes. When it comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  I'd short in a second if given the chance. The truth is that if you ... explanations is true, but I do know which one I personally think is a hell of a ... . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  . :) What I really loved about Burchards is that it gathers a group of ... in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place ... there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  development industry, there is always a nagging feeling in my mind that I might ... Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  folder in time for reading. A good rule of thumb is that things should be ... in your MyMIT account) then it is likely that we don't have an ... interview-related questions. "One of the requirements of MIT is that I should

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  was up to!). Also that I got to legitimately carry a disc gun ... that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass ... . She knew that I was on to her. In the last 20 minutes or so, while we

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005