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• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six ... they are terrible. HOW CAN YOU HATE THIS FACE, PETEY!? All in all, the ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of the different HASS departments, which are listed here. In response to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to ... to be willing to participate; if you engage yourself in the vibrant ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back ... in the front row where we were treated to some of the best live jazz I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life ... seems clearer. Thus, for the maximum principle to be effective in cases of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  me. But I’ll get to that in just a bit. In Closing, A Few Things From ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of ... boxes they reside in. I just want to talk about the process of bringing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  from the boot, I had to relearn how to walk properly. I had developed ... ’m building back to playing for long periods of time, because my foot gets ... also continues. I hope that all the work I’ve put in will continue to pay

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  20 euro per night price tag. The second thing we did in Nice was go to ... easy getting to sleep on my unimpeachably soft MIT mattress is) . You can ... somehow built around me. There is like one person in the world who gets that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can ... once. They are gentle and severe. I want this woman to teach me how to ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... post) to UROP with the MIT Game Lab. Hopefully I get it, but we'll see ... on the next one. Happens all the time. I haven't figured out how to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who participates in conversations the most? How many words did each character say ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings ... how to lift up our siblings of color. please, please read vincent and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... remember starting to giggle - and then my eyes were closed and I was in a ... shouldn't exist, but it doesn't) and used to be in a rock band. I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  in one night, but intentionally working to get caught up and do well in ... can focus my time to get stuff done before two in the morning.  My ... don’t have to get 100% on every single assignment you’ve ever done in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more ... composers in order to arrange and perform these songs with a live orchestra ... 's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009