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• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... . "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your ... would be helpful for us to know about your circumstances, you are welcome
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter ... Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right, I actually ran out in front of my entire dorm and started dancing ... conga line that tricked me by disbanding right as I was in the middle of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  , your life, and your grades than they would in high school. I actually get ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high school. In fact, (a brief tangent) I’ve always disliked it when college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  Arthur in [annotation note='I didn’t realize quite how unhinged that ... and a Next Exec meeting, and, every week, I would go in terrified and ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  cars. I remember how proud I was after taking an Art History class in ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  teens hadn”t seen me for four days in a row and I knew that they would have things to tell me about their life. I knew they would want to ... these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... Jackson in the rainy closing scene of Step Up 2. I would walk around the ... two amazing dance teams in Shanghai where I learned about how different

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the ... looks like it would be berry-flavored! At least two people I know have ... drinking blood would be like… RPMI [annotation note="I never knew you

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... note="amazing feature, would recommend"]multiple inboxes[/annotation] in my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when ... in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  dining, i'm staying in mit's campus when i otherwise would've been hard ... that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... its own indigenous people just feels weird. in other news, i am overdue

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  - This album was so empowering in ways I cannot even word. I would listen ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... in successive outer layers.  It's how the product works, how it feels in your hand, how it fits in the context of your life.  And the very

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  ’t help but think about how much I’ll miss these constants when I’m lost in ... would be in custody of my younger brother, which, okay yeah I can see why ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely ... is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013