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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  for everyone's sanity to be able to get off campus once in awhile). When ... Frank Sinatra in New York, New York: these vagabond shoes were longing to ... shoes to go to school there. Not one bit. But if it was anywhere in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... present and what format do you present in? Also, you said that you'll get to ... 've obtained over the past month or so, and Albert steps in to help us if we get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  ’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably ... guess my point is - all of you heading to MIT soon, GET EXCITED 'CAUSE ... just have two other relevant things to say- 1) Seriously don’t get caught

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... tend to get more and more depressed the longer I spend in my dorm room ... in the beginning, whether you want to admit it or not. Some people are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... like an artificial race to get the most experience you can as early as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  to be in this massive chat, and you get a pretty accurate view of what ... of take some time to answer any random questions like “how often can ... than trying to learn about the school. During the Q&A you also get to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three ... different teams will cooperate in order to achieve that goal. Why is this

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... in all the things that don't change from week to week. Like, say, class

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... there any point to thinking? putting too much importance in what other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in ... community back in high school, and how I hope to extend that love to the ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... each other instead of simply strategizing on how best to stay on top. He ... require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  , so as to get internships, or get in to grad school? How much will you ... have done this to get in, and doing this won’t necessarily get you in. I ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  like it here, I might have to get the application in.”  WISE and fly-ins ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE ... was the first fly-in she applied to.  Daymé had her heart set on MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007