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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  help you get a new perspective on the application process. I don't expect ... about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to ... , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  to give some thought to how people are going to get into and out of ... taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... class, my teacher, who is a professional costume designer in New York

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... realized that if i tried to chime in and say what everyone was saying... i ... at the same time i struggle to put my experiences out in the world for

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

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  4 years, not to mention the fact that it was unsafe in its functional ... cooperative in Miramontes, discussing the new design for a cassava mill. Photo: Benji Moncivaiz In the back of the pickup truck. Left to right

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  everything there was to know about myself. I didn't know how easy it is to ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a ... boy to ever confess his interest in me. We had a lot in common, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... 's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group ... math books, and a great math teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  oh two two" Electric fields and charges: mystery Unknowable to me in ... impossible to clasp There's elegance in here; there's symmetry And solving problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... , Weird Al's new video has an MIT mention ("First in my class here at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I ... -year students, amounting to ~20 hrs/wk of teaching. In Germany I taught special

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the ... from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for ... I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  more attention to how it felt and tasted in my mouth than its appearance ... that when i get sick now, it's up to me to manage my symptoms and judge ... very nice. who doesn't like getting little treats? like, i love going to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner ... we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  subjects I'm interested in that I will never get to take—some deeper dives ... have to in order to get through the class, and so I do. 4:34 PM: I stop ... ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  like, how are you alive."]most of my friends were in more ... classes I was in, I wanted to spend more time working on personal projects ... too many things, only to suffer later on. I'm still learning how to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  it now. 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms How to write good code, and ... the first problem set than I ever expected to learn in two weeks. This ... jobs: in addition to my UROP and blogging I am now also a professional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... .112 and 8.01 problem sets this week, working in huge, huge study groups

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025