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• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... : during my last therapy session, i asked my therapist about how i can go ... 's been so hard to drag myself out of bed. and even when i spend time in bed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... huge difference in the opinion of Next House - which, like I said, I love ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with historic architecture and libraries that smelled like old books. I enjoy how ... excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I ... --ambitious, since I’m leaving for Ethiopia on August 6th and was in China until June

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... which Mr Knechtle would always reply, “Now, what if I slapped this man ... Australian man ever actually said was “I don't need to believe in God to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  "]two other people,[/annotation] and I’m really excited to see how it’ll turn ...  did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that ... projects in the makerspace, and were [annotation note="“I didn’t know you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  while they did it. I'm sure you can see how many problems that would cause ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New ... even students walked in on them while they were setting it up? Would they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... for majors, in terms of FOOD - but it's still happening for me; I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... Subject Tests in Math and Science. Q: Should I rush report my scores to ... sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my financial

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... research project in six weeks. I attended RSI myself in high school, and this ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT ... -weighted average of every location I frequent in Cambridge! This might not actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  complete radio kit.) Remember when I said that I would be taking Terrascope ... was an amazing part of the Terrascope experience. I never realized how ... Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few ... many lessons i learned with my team in 6.811, i found that while it ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  energy came through in Rambax’s performance. I loved that spoken ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... quality!) I was taking African Music this semester (21M.293, to those who

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006