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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• 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 / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... right now. I have been in committed relationships back to back since I ... character flaw I needed to push through, or if this just meant I wasn't in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  we hadn't really done before, and to get to leave a "mark" in terms of ... filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... ‘20 were very involved in!) originally founded in 2017 to paint a long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... ’s super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... probably lead her to shoot me, and she might get me before I got her (in ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005