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• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  . How much effort do you put in trying to stay true to real-world science ... how it went. I didn't get to talk to, touch, or even really see Hayden ... me. And also, I didn't get to pick them - Fox did. Okay, here we go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  so proud to be at MIT. According to the project website, the ... , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a ... I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort ... senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... why it baffles everyone how you manage to get all your work done on time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... 't really know how to do that. MIT has multiple science departments, so you ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  energy; If I had, then I'd have known How much work you'd give to me! I will survive 2.005 Oh, as long as I know how to punt I know I'll stay ... Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... get in. (Or maybe it's really just to contain the diseases found there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

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

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class ... something cool to work on after graduation. She's between getting a job and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to ... myself to New York Magazine during my breaks. Also, here I get an amazing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ? how far could i get? thus, began the journey to the end of the world ... far future; reading how the world was going to change in a thousand ... ’t happen in real life. to fix this, we can connect the grid points using

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023