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• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... choose to store their stuff in a lot of different ways. Some people have ... to 6 boxes of storage in the dorm itself (usually in basements or suite

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking ... this is also why it is good to keep the feet dry, and wrap them in dry

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  competitions in order to get into MIT!) I remember standing on the field with the ... what to do or how to react, having just lost very narrowly in the ... realize now that knowing how to explain why one's cause is worth supporting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  , I get nothing.  tick Everyone here is brilliant. How the fuck did I get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... focus and let nothing get in my way. tick I feel like despite operating at

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I get to mentor the four very lovely freshmen who live here in person ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other ... write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... down these rabbit holes where I return to the past, entryways found in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... professors is in students themselves. So don't be scared of them! They like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  pick up my vehicle, cash in hand. Since I'd been itching to get in some ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people ... and Design, so if you're interested in how biology can inspire

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always ... the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and ... ’ll hear, “How many careers did you get?” and “How did it go?” and “Did you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  to admit to how many episodes of MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen I watched in ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him ... my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... how you're feeling right now. Senior year is hard. I know that to be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... to discuss sex and learning about ways to engage in enjoyable and consensual safe sex". They have a lot of information about kinks and how to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... getting lost or driving in circles," he said. The average Internet user

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  forcing myself to learn to write longform. Poetry taught me how to capture ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... how much enjoyment I get out of yelling at the television during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008