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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not ... it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the ... his parents' house about 20 minutes away in Buena Park. There, I would ... people in general, but the moment I got the time to breathe, my eyes would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... (maybe two weeks)). A small melted candle (which I would never ever light

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog ... to Miami as I departed to see THE DALAI LAMA in his talk on ethics ... . Furthermore, I also participated in another form of dance, playing dodgeball, in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  happened at the Outfinite, at eleven in the evening. Modern style I was ... what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in ... revealed something larger about me I don't know but I thought you would know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post ... I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another ... HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  disclaimer, I don’t think paper revisions should be like this. In fact, it ... prediction when I got an email. I remember sitting at my desk in the Google ... had left the office, so I was sitting back in my chair, scrolling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  knowledge to people around the world for free, it should and would. I was busy ... . I had no idea then that my own life-adventure would be so closely ... about how hard they had to work, you will glance at the other MIT grad in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  practice in problem-solving and proof-writing.  But I got more than practice: I got feedback! If I did something wrong, someone would quickly point out my mistake. If I wrote something unclear, someone would ask me

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  many of us there are, and how many people exist whose lives I never see ... is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most ... say "I'm done." So how can all this be fun? Response 1. You never do a ... in the style of Napoleon Dynamite, "SWEET." And what would a blog

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... research for the past three years in a UROP with Professor Robert "I ... . Alicia and I were sitting in the suite one morning discussing, among other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  ’s summer in Brazil, so I brought mostly shorts and crop tops. I have not had time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would ... the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  myself, how could I take care of two whole ears? Would I look silly? Could ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  subject. I would do a video on balancing creativity and expression in a ... in mind.  Still, I didn’t have an idea what the ‘issue’ would be, so I ... no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  would be coming this early. Thus, I ended up spending two nights in ... journey in Spain began. Over the next month, I would come to know his ... really neat that I would be learning the vocabulary for relationships in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  entire show that Valjean never sings at all. I was Javert in my high ... mutilated me recently, I posted the much-requested "before" picture in my last entry. Given the locations of our cuts, I would say that thekeri and I are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... and family in East Asia. I can't express enough how valuable this ... scared I would lose after leaving MIT. Will teaching and traveling in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013