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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  future success and happiness. How you embrace and dedicate yourself to ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... gotten this, though, to spend so much time in Russia in general. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due ... -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In ... movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  and organizing data to send to Andy in Switzerland so he can keep ... competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My ... whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  touristy, yeah, but it was great to get the lay of the land in such a huge ... , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the ... destination. In the 36 hours we spent there, I think we got to see about one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or ... trapped within an image. You can see it in action on the Project Naptha

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  presidential debate bingos and register to vote parties. Well, I've been getting ... there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the ... wonder how much your vote is weighted in the general election? Well

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... potential in us to be great scientists and engineers. Kitchen-related good news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... 't satisfied to simply recreate our print materials in the online space. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice ... be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference ... always assumed happiness rooted in productivity was superior to happiness

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  ! Our best and brightest! Go change the world! In contrast to those vague ... posts is how they continue to ring true from years ago to just three weeks ... took the form of Mens et Manus. Of course, the former refers to faith in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban ... appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  located strategically to get maximal sunshine exposure in the afternoon =p ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to ... final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... data, so I forced us to play six more rounds in which I recorded some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway ... less tasty burgers). Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway. Two ... to catch up on questions and other business here in the blog over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  friend Maita '13 (her feet featured in Fig. 1C) decided to add a little ... have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of ... Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011