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• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have legitimately cried because of how frustrated I get when I don ... haven't cooked. We're out of snacks. I'm going this Friday to buy ... In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  grass. That’s how I got a fifth of Mathcamp to dress up as wizards and ... I spent this past [annotation note="and also the summer before that"]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying ... and pulling down $5000 a month, I sold cakes and memorized how many of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... responsibilities were multi-faceted, but I would basically meet with a professor and ... mechanical engineering. Hundreds of professors would fit that criteria, but I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  met I would likely not ever see again. But I didn't want that to stop me ... . I'm starting the year off with finishing a brand new portfolio website ... an incredible, incredible year. I learned to be comfortable with being

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  would have no weight on you now. I know for a fact if I had read this a year ago, I would've gone "WHATEVER, FUTURE ME. I AM TOTALLY GOING TO ... student) and I actually bought these on separate occasions, and I think I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  summer, but decided that ultimately I hadn't devoted enough time and would ... I have simultaneously done nothing and everything this IAP. After an ... : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I ... computer programming in high school, and I knew the next logical step would ... at the time, and I was sure I wouldn’t be like that. How dramatically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  the MIT community. So, as soon as the website went live, I submitted my ... Kanjun, Noam, and I would be the speakers at the inaugural TIMtalks on May ... realized how hard it would be to convey my story in 12 minutes. ...My speech

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... needs. But when I'm on my own, why would I go to the dining hall and have ... bunch of lentils, and ridiculous how sad I felt whenever I showed up and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my ... I’d had it hammered into my head by a counselor or a website that I ... apply to MIT. I knew it was—theoretically—possible that MIT would accept

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  ’t focus on how much this semester isn’t what I imagined it would be. Maybe I ... sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that ... center of mass: I felt like this would have been too selfish of me. 6.The ... during orientation, I staunchly refused to buy any edible matter, to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... taught me how to code would somehow ease these feelings, quell them long ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  decision). I wanted a friendly user interface that would allow me to multi ... : Computer Buying Advice Recommended Laptops It would also be helpful to talk ... I'm BAaaaaaaCK! Classes are building up, students are working, halls

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... by his drawing, "Central European Time." I thought I would be able to ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  competition's website or the MIT team's website. I thought I'd jot down a ... Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... turn out exactly as they would have hoped. But, they tried a more

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  summer. As I stalked the ELX website for spring research opportunities, I ... delving into Marvel! When I returned home for the summer, I planned out how I would conduct my research for the project. Fortunately, I had a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  would inevitably meet our untimely, grisly demise. I was wrong - that was ... then. And though I still can't grow a decent beard, oh how the times have ... I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  rushed to the art supply store to buy materials that I didn't end up using ... quicker and go to sleep? and I’m just like, yo, mom, that’s not how it ... the same time, studio bonding is pretty amazing – I would definitely go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010