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• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• 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 ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  this website: http://sunenergyworld.blogspot.com" I would be delighted ... most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in ... ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... grocery stores listed in the previous MIT groceries guide, and I’ve scouted

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... catch changes in the populations behavior. And I wanted to see how easy a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re ... color of each ball in the process i want to prove to my friend that two entrances to a building are connected proof: i walk in via the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... website or anything. I am planning to learn Python in January so! Very ... 'll most likely take progress pics throughout the year just so I can see how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... , "How much?" I said, "$25,000." This was back in 1964. He said: "Oh, no ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular ... write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of ... lived in East Campus, I would walk 20 minutes here because their prices ... are full. I have my own big cabinet, and baby... it's like Tetris in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  I could go back, I would only major in biology. Yeah, it's just ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT ... of that nature: 1. I don't think Timur really has wireless in his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... 's a quiz on Wednesday that I really would like to do well on something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... -Japanese fusion cuisine behind an unassuming concrete facade. Since I was dressed in ... that we would be in Philadelphia for the evening... and possibly the next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  .org better. New bloggers! In addition to our new website, I also want to ... have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met ... decide to redesign? As I explained here, we were proud of our old website

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018