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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... tremendously surprised I was at how natural the conversation felt. I told him

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... to Algorithms. Still, I never thought that I would want to do a startup ... decisions. I participated in several hackathons at MIT. It really started off

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even ... decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  student in the immediate area, I was pretty excited to meet other 2017's in ... Engineering, which I wanted as my major. It was amazing seeing how much the ... through so far. I began to wonder what kinds of questions they would ask

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  desserts, [annotation note="a fried dough pastry I would soon come to love ... . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I met I would likely not ever see again. But I didn't want that to stop me

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... , but in Italy? That would NEVER happen." I came to Japan to immerse

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... was my mother–who, every weekend, would go over what I did in the prep ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  reasoning that may have carried you through in the past. I would spend hours ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  interested in MIT and Aero/Astro, I would encourage you to apply to MIT and see ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... unlike next years class,would you consider me for this year's class?i am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... 's video on eggs, I was pretty confident in my abilities. I unfortunately don ... really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  good pasta dish, but I also think I might like taco salad. How do I pick ... ’t think I’m into it anymore”. I’ve been fortunate in that I sort of ... .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  graduate, how I got started in VR, every blog post I've written related to ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  . I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... many assignments due Wednesday, and I would just be like, "Oh, oh, oh, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote ... thought were acceptable answers. I barely finished on time and handed in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id ... gameplay i learned how to keep myself centered on the pads without looking at ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... MIT grads in med school? Should I worry about that? And Lori said in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006