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• 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…

  

  just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for ... quick to embrace the stereotypes that seem to have been eliminated in most ... anyone to respond to. Since this article focused on women in Ivy League

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  how to listen, to sit in someone’s joy and pain, and to navigate the ... MIT very much did not teach me how to do, but are skills I am glad to ... changed me in ways that I hope will only grow.  Before I got to MIT, I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... —eternal gratitude to those who have believed in me and supported me even when life was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  personalities. When I say that, I'm not just referring to undergraduates, but also to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... here, right now I want to focus on an aspect of diversity I never fully

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... graphs are ugly! I've been learning how to use STK (Satellite Tool Kit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... consider poetry to be a list of junk in my suitcases with line indentations ... first place, considering how much entropy he put in it.), Stamps, the kind

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) office, which then gets turned in to both ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... it in the window of our main lounge, visible to anyone walking down

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... the process, breaking it down to how it works, and how to do it to get ... looks so if I spend money to get it cut I just go to technicuts in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  "antimatter". It's similar to Ordinal Markup in that the numbers get really big ... Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... 't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  application in. How do I get this added to my application packet? @Elise ... wanted to participate in a math or science competition. I didn't get a ... to get in all my materials by the end of the day today. Will i be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  Price Rd. to get onto Olive Blvd. and I couldn’t help but think about how ... the roads I was just starting to get intimately familiar with, in spite ... are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  decide, it goes to person #2. And so on. A lot of dorms have "In-House Rush ... 're assigned to your floor, you all sit down in a big group and just work it out ... provide kids with the tools to develop their own fun and innovative toys in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... that it's possible to participate in community service at MIT.  One of ... and put effort into making the world a better place to live in, even if

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  't know how I had time to bake brownies, but I fit in somehow! They were oh ... , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011