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• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... 't always a way to solve for x. What I also know is that I could have this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my ... worry about, so I got to see a bunch of my friends. "MIT liked us, so they put a ring on it :D" - My friend. (I was going to make the same joke

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... following are true", she said. "You want to be a part of this once in a lifetime opportunity to originate a role for the stage. You have never been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... , measurable impact on the world is slim to none, but each of us must have a reason to continue living. It may not be true that life itself has a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  't really need it per say, but since I want to go into journalism, a writing ... self - aka we're going to be writing a memoir! The professor is Sherry ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people ... how i would have to smash my foot into the ground a thousand times more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... . Yeesh. That night, I tried to work on a paper but couldn't. I also didn ... of a relationship so I tried to break up with my boyfriend. Perhaps

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... – amounting to ~10 hrs/wk of teaching.   Wait, are you a physics ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... Burton Conner. Recognizing my desire to blog a bit before then, Laura rushed to help by giving me a chance to guest blog for her, which is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  within just a few days and how important it is to take a deep breath, slow ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... able to explore a little more of Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one ... the law. Ross Finnie, a Liberal Democrat MSP, has written to every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... and chicken with rice. Defrosting meat is a thing that you have to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  to be a viable and important option. But the history of these recent ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... these systems; for instance, to stimulate thinking or to provide a variety

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... life, but when I look closer most of what's become important to me has ... my finals and say goodbye to my first semester as a sophomore, and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... the camera to "night vision" for a evening shot, with the characters ... ! We were told that we would have two and a half hours to make the movie

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... appear prepared to have a job interview, but my advice would be to ASK that ... anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color ... , to be somewhat precise (some friends and I put my laptop on a scale ... . These are all organizations or places that are very important to me, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and ... motivated my desire to be productive faded within a matter of days. i thought ... and do the things i never got a chance to do before or at MIT, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020