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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  -- since the prompts were intended for art rather than poems (and I think ... when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of ... 't have to sit around for two months waiting for the perfect phrase to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  ,000 And $10,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarships The Davidson Institute for ... .S. resident residing in the United States. There is no minimum age for ... . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... Link!!  The program looks really interesting, and I think that it'll be a great ... service event for my pre-orientation program, the Freshman Urban Program

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that ... " is that the water from our faucets has stopped running for some reason

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  brought the big elephants. I took some pictures for you. Here are my ... share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international selection. The applicants we saw today were all fantastic, which makes ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  an Albertsons parking lot and dislocated my knee. For the first time, I ... we build lives for ourselves, it becomes important that we all keep the ... [/caption] Looking back at this, the takeaway remains the same. As you make your way

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cut look clean.  One piece you cut is fine and smooth, but the next has ... for all that you yanked the steering wheel.   Now you dream of the ... cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  true. MIT is just the beginning. Looking back at the past four years, I ... internships and friends that I had. I'm excited for the next step (a real job (I ... . Remember that when you're deciding if MIT is the right place for you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... production of the cells. Bryan has been at the BPEC for six months and found ... . His UROP advice to prefrosh is to be open-minded when you're looking for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  , the cloud forecast was looking gloomy all month and up to the morning of ... collect temperature and cloud data for NASA with the Globe Observer citizen ... and the Celestron 12x50mm solar binoculars I'd bought for the occasion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... on the actual relationship; for example, maybe you already noticed that ... husband, and the line is her explanation for why the future breakup occurs

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our temporary rooms: Not very inviting, is it? So we set right to work. The ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... College in Massachusetts, and worked for the US government, travelling the ... round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  performances of Shakespeare plays in the Boston Common that you can watch for ... absolutely amazing. The actors were phenomenal, and it set the bar high for all ... ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  occasional bursts of hectic labwork for the rest of the afternoon, and I really ... It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and ... option... well, here I am on the lab's computer. Science, while a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... flying out to D.C. was for team bonding and it would look bad to not bond ... for the first several turns. Round after round, my ball fell into the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... Labs, a French tech startup, and they were looking for MIT undergraduates ... to the public - for every company around the world even marginally

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  last year for the commencement of the Class of 2011. And it's echoed in ... for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from MIT. In a few months, the Class of 2016 will register for their first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  it all very low-key for the actual day of Halloween. I basically ... Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you are all very welcome. I hope it helped you chill a little about the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005