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• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... was important, because i wanted to make sure that people were there, and ... friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... 've contemplated several times about running off to a cabin to become a writer (which

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  responded, "Hard to say because I have so many flaws." That's a self ... want to improve into a few goals. Like, I haven't been eating well and ... emotionally mature, meaning I've been able to avoid a lot of drama because it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  , "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school ... As a junior, it's imminent that I think about what happens after MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  & Santa Fe) merged to form BNSF. But most importantly, everyone ... their work activities or just to show me a specific project they ... ! I haven't had to do that on a regular basis for what, four years? We

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... . Decide What’s Important. MIT allows applicants to enter five activities ... the interview as a chance to describe your life outside the classroom in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  ;_>) PART ONE: 1:00 to 1:30: That guy is a pretty famous internet comic ... student at MIT - see her MIT mug in front of her) 5:04 to 5:11: "There's a ... a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  tourist-y trip was to Target to buy a swimsuit. No regrets there: turns out, a late-night swim leads to the best sleep, so I plan to justify the ... patient! Going back to Boston, a big city, from the Midwest always requires

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  it feels important to you and meaningful to your application as a whole ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And ... circuit”. Feel free to skip this section, but click this block to read a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... sure there is a single "right" answer to that question. I wish I could ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  . This marks the end of a very good start to what will be a very good ... , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I ... ...later! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/2013: The burgers were fairly tasty. On a scale of 1 to 5, where

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and ... went to the end of a T line was when some of my podmates and I went out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... that are most important to you, the parent, so don't be afraid to ask for ... those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... . As soon as he started speaking, I knew I had to work him into a blog post. Unfortunately, he beat me to it. He got a pretty good picture of me

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

  living having the time of my life

  

  ’s important to pick the people that you hang around with wisely ( I have now ... treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout ... in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... like a maniac, made two overnight trips to Connecticut in the same week

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  , 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the ... committee decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a ... 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from ... ends with a tidbit about why juggling is important for the body, mind and ... particularly time-consuming profession, so a young Smyly began to learn tricks

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014