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• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... they did, and so I recounted my experiences learning how to cook and bake, and gardening as a child, and why I loved both and how they’d shaped me

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  ). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address in mid ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... about the MIT workload. I'm sure I could get it done, but would it be at ... academics like I am. thus, i don't really think I will fit in to a 'nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... . How in the world did you both go from doing engineering at MIT to ... would have these models I designed on the computer laying around my desk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  ." How embarrassing. Anyway, I spent about an hour more taking notes in ... Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... how quickly my essay came together after I put all the chunks up there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  runs in high school and thinking about what I would blog. I don ... in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... trees. One year ago I was in Venice, fairly certain this virus everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... ; I had an awesome, well-thought-out plan, and look how that turned out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack ... past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from ... inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in ... long time. I cant exactly remember the number of hours as the'd go in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  the field is completely different. I might have been in over my head ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... GEL to teach me the things I never would have learned at MIT otherwise

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  really like bio - in a slightly different version of this universe, I would ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :) ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... . “Hey, how old are you?” “Depends on who’s asking.” “I’m asking!” “Well

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I ... summer, I've kept my summer goals in a markdown file in a Github repo. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  watch them fizz, which I thought would go down in history as The Most ... . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for ... to kick our asses. But this year, I wasn’t sure what I would do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  —we live here in the day-to-day.” mit and the cube I would be remiss not to ... , achievable goal. This helps me stay off my phone in the morning, too. I sought ... look forward to every day. I think that’s important. In fact, the “small

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  of things in my life - how many extra-curriculars I was involved in ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007