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• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... ways: what if the thing I was doing was wrong for me or for my future

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  Health or the counseling deans. Look here for my account of a relatively ... reasons you have stayed at MIT?" Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid, for the ... am not, for the record, a star student at MIT), but I like that I am

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first ... one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... rice, and the water, and you hit the switch, and that's it. Look at this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... a brief for the importance of attending to thoughts principally ... basis for the enduring and vital importance of the humanities today. It is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... . In München, the standard size for any beverage is 1 liter, pretty much ... know there were international symbols for those things. We went to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... middle school-aged son thought it was mean for someone at the Oscars to be ... been married to for 9 years, the father of my kids, and I was cleaning

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Michigan Wolverines (Go Blue!), and the Boston Red Sox (but I always root for ... Literature Favorite things about MIT: I love that the people take their studies ... seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  resolution links (for the most part) as those are pretty unpleasant to look at ... I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... sea in the sweet wet velvet of winter eve, I looked up and saw a beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... number of particularly impressive hacks throughout the weekend. For ... for a long time. Of course the hack ran the nerd gamut across the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  .....what's that? Can we enhance the image? Hmm the back of that head looks ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A ... . It makes for some intensely long days in the shop and some high stress

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. My research question is “how did the ... slow pace of scientific progress, of the persistence required for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... the foundation for our longstanding general policy for disasters and ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  readings for various classes, clubs, a social life...) Here are the books we ... climate change. So part of this class is looking toward the future to ... brimming with questions for the professor, Bruno Verdini. His advice is

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run ... . The looks I got following that proclamation sorely tempted me to amend ... indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my ... sum for the first time here in Boston. A group of about 12 of us went to ... with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  interesting too. Look at some of the cool things you can do while at MIT! I ... time here thus far. So far on the blogs, I have written about two of them: the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... , working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  that way? What did the process even look like? By the time September 4th ... live fully independently with friends for the first time in my life ... who wasn't related to me for the first time in five months. I still can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  caterpillar, looking through the garden for a good spot to set all my worries ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for ... captivated by the plot. What made Wolf 359 so special for me was that it felt

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021