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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  buy fome-cor this weekend. Not complaining…yet. I really hope ... -squares! The knife with which I will do much damage. :P Sam '12, revelling in ... paper, refill lead, glue, wood, drafting dots… Wooooooo – I arrived at my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... correction!) I took Sailing the first quarter and learned how to set up and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  feel like you have succeeded. So how should I be defining success in my ... the right reasons? How do I know I'm not "sheeping" along in life ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who read the blogs. Thinking of all the things I would say post-decision time ... feel like I'm in that situation, I keep running. I tell myself it's all

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  couldn't sever these ties that bind. So in the end, life went on. I lived ... separate instances in which I was booted for violation of some security or ... . And then it came time that I part ways with Tiny Dell. In his place is

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  pizza so I’m going there instead. No interest in volunteering with the Red Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting ... wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  isolated and it was inevitable that I would need a car. But the car was in Colorado, I was in Cambridge, and my job was in Oregon. So that began my ... in the future. I am spending the summer in Bend, OR, a small city of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  modeling for Infinite in the past. I thought it would be pretty casual, so I ... Koch building, but I had no conception of how those clothes would work on ... a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  volunteering trip, I would also be gaining something substantial. This was hour 1 ... closed my eyes, I knew I was back in Jordan (and I honestly say this with ... and that they would probably be visited again next year. Still naïve, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up ... out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  , perhaps I would have felt the same way. I've written before about how the ... name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... chillin' in my mouth. I got back to my room and decided to spend some time

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  with something. How about that. I'll probably major in Urban Planning ... (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember ... . I'm warning you now. With this in mind (the world, not parenthetical

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your ... circuit theory and printed circuit boards in general. I've discovered that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... was in a tremendous amount of pain. So I got the boot. And I healed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  't, however, what I would call 'pretty uneventful.' Before I begin my little ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010