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• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  house is on a fire, it is more important to douse the flames than to ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... make to the civilians of Paris if a high school student from Portland

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... to my Engineering Practice Requirement, a project with leadership

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  a different thing to different people. Don't assume you know what it ... requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call ... file. There is no need to give us a heads ... official marksheet....as this is kind of considered to be a big achievement

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to ... , Obama was the only one to have a public rally in Boston. I think I shall ... to the USA, then there was a Q-and-A session. She mentioned that what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the other bloggers have been blogging a lot, too!). To returning readers ... skills (though that definitely improved a lot too). It was the ability to ... like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... activists to establish a chapter of STAND (a student anti-genocide coalition

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  spontaneity turns out to be a disappointment. An artist I like retires to be a ... the world to have a productive but unremarkable career. So it goes ... -nighters in a row. I imagined what it would be like to live through stereotyped

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we ... notoriously difficult(relative to other freshman classes), 8.01 has a bonding ... .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  . It’s also important to listen to that voice that says I need a break ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... magic formula to engineer most of life’s important outcomes.  Sure, you ... everything from college admissions, to getting a great job opportunity, to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  ! they played Beyond the Sea, a song my dad used to sing to me as a kid ... grateful i am to have found a family in them [caption id="attachment_49048 ... ; filmed a dance video with a friend  i desperately longed for people to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  lab that I didn't need to graduate, who TAed a robotics class ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to ... does a lot of government work, it's got a quasi-academic feel to it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  the most important choice of all. You have to find a way to let go of ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... , you have to write a first draft before you realize what you were even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  are important, but I did not enter research to make a small change, I ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... ideas could be anything: sharpening a t-cell to pierce cancer cells, using

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  dough-snakes into pebble-sized dough nodules use a rolling pin to ... to a pan and putting the dumpling in make sure to cover the pan so ... boils again, then add a splash of cold water to stop the boiling wait

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... used to watch Smurfs as a child; I even had the video game on Atari. OK

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  . I did not want to repeat a class – that would put me way behind; I ... had to memorize the process. This put me at a disadvantage at MIT; my ... redoing each problem. I did not have access to a blank copy of the test, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent ... Other than spending a few hours last night brütally annihilating ... , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009