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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . the rain started to get worse and by 8pm, lightning crackles in the sky ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  they know how to thrive in an environment that pushes for constant ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Prakash, getting in some last-minute shopping, and preparing to leave. My ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... chance of being admitted to MIT. With that said, in the last few years we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... chair, which means I get to plan things that I always wanted to do and ... to college in Boston, like heading to Wellesley or running the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... evening against West Point, but first we had to get there. What we ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  gets below 60 degrees here, we cry. So not only do I have to wrap my head ... get to help me think of a name for my real blog. (I named my old one ... come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  workshops and lessons taught me a lot and gave me great ideas on how to ... up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... at SEO and also with an admitted student over lunch to tell her how

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sparring steps. I still am not sure how one would be able to use this in ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How ... , Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the ... that in years past~) Believe it or not, though I have been to Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... this season (in fact, it's the first undefeated season ever), leading to ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... Kart tournaments and everything in between, flooded back to me. Home was here, not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in ... get paid for a UROP? How much?" First, money is important for college ... who interview? Also, can you give tips on how to prepare - what are the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  , with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in ... . The next day, we slept in, and went to a late brunch at one of my ... website!) After that, my Mom wanted to go [blueberry

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely ... in June,[/annotation] which has been a while, but considering how many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025