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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... beauty to be found here. The sunshine drenches everything in ethereal ... to two companies, one in Cambridge, Massachusetts and one in the San

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... ’t randomly hit up someone on my floor to go get boba. Plus, many of my closest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it ... idea how to capture the data from Java directly to an Excel sheet ... gave me my awesome experience in Spain. Then, they also sent me to Italy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... about how they would handle the fall, I decided to seriously consider taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be seen, you have to allow it.  You have to invite people in, and it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  am not sure how many transfer applicants get in and what the admissions ... house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and ... team once I get back in town and IAP starts - Visit my old high school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... East Campus devotes annually to bad ideas. Events in swing: grilling in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  administration in some form or fashion. Most of these get sent to dorm mailing ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... or negatively), not something that needs to be worked out in real time

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... also how to approach problems. There are definitely many different approaches to how students here study/approach learning stuff, so while I’m not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project ... to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last days with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... logical choice to talk about what the weekend has in store for you if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... fall visit to a college or university that you are interested in ... much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  what you'd like your user ID to be (you get to pick) -- keeping in mind ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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