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• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  and start the semester with a clean slate. You CAN, but that doesn ... after a few weeks. The first step is making that conscious effort. Even ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... outside of class hours, and a student who has that sort of access to the ... assignments that you have to do yourself with a huge group project at the end

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... decided to take it, as I got a 5 on the AP Bio exam and got credit for the

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

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... reading americanah. everyone in the book is a caricature and i love it. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  to you lickety split." I might also add that the MIT ID # is a nine ... am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... plan and laid out the gear we'd need. All that was left to do was get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  that a lot of the events that felt "important" to me often were things to ... that maybe Kylee and Eva are tied here because I talked to them both a ... Raymond and realizing that this was the city I wanted to live in. Watching

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  naked velocity. It's dark and the asphalt is a gooey chocolatey blur underneath. I pay little attention to this because I am certain that a bone ... pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  train ...please let them know that there is a free bus from Pen station to ... . Hasbro is awesome, they care a lot about what they do, and it was fun to ... other way involved a bunch of paperwork. The skinny of it is that I needed

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  the store and buy some "galletas," wtf are you supposed to do? There is ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of ... belief that the US is boring, too capitalist, etc, and that Americans are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  dragged up many a flight of stairs and that dragged us down the same stairs ... morning. There is definitely a big part of me that is missing the ... would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  MIT was, I knew that I was supposed to get a scholarship, go there, and ... 've wanted to tell and a feeling that I've felt the need to express for a long ... CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... 're a troll or your argument is baseless. And on that inflammatory note ... Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... whatever this is (a blog post? A stream of consciousness diary entry? The ... Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  switch letters as they first learn to read, and that the difficulty is not ... explains that while speakers of a language may use the same words ... at handling all the variability that there is in speech,” he says, “but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  and the idea is that you’re just supposed to follow your stream of ... because that’s when my laundry is supposed to be done and just continuously ... there’s something special about trying to capture the same meaning or

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community ... (HERE!) on the first floor and is free to everyone :) Those artists who ... , though, is interdiscplinary in nature and stems from a desire to establish

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  Initiative: "Planet Earth is a monument to the magnificent complexity that can ... Initiative at MIT is a new multidisciplinary research and education effort that ... the Smoot, is a uniquely MIT unit of measure. Brush up on some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  must celebrate the differences between you, and we must ensure that there ... you change the world together and show the naysayers that each of you is ... song (Mikey was a Log). This option is clearly superior to #'s 1-3. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007