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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... and probably get a haircut. After three months I've pretty much become ... wasn't planning on wearing a tie. Is he secretly trying to tell me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Medical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world-wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major ... miraculous drug that can pretty much cure a rare cancer called Chronic Myeloid

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  IAP has finally started, so that means my grocery bill is much larger ... leadership? • How would you define leadership? (hint: this is harder than you think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  've had a conversation with you child about just how much you can afford to ... you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of ... , maturity and savvy. Still this process is as counterintuitive as a good golf

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... , you can imagine how much running up and down this involved. :) That

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... (usually seen as the Latin Cerberus), is a protocol for mutual authentication ... Carnegie Mellon, AFS is a network accessible file system. It's a way of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  , elementary school) whose child has known for a couple of years that MIT is ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational and reasonable major life decision. I ADOPTED A SEVEN WEEK OLD KITTEN

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  . Being a junior, I know that living through MIT is not much like the ideal ... describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... . At the start, I was definitely too optimistic about how much fun I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  how much we at MIT appreciate you and how much effort you put into your ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  " is a common buzzword nowadays, but it's a good way to describe how I ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as ... hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... -Conner's culture is pretty much defined by fire alarms. Yeah, fire alarms and that ... two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  tears. Pictures nor words cannot describe how glorious it is. It has ... Trail itself is a pretty standard hike, and has maybe 1000 feet of ... extra effort not to fall, because the trail itself is a four foot wide

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  perhaps 5 classes and a UROP are too much... But heck, I've learned so much ... lifetime. Get ready to embrace it. Much love, A reluctantly, soon ... It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  of land a shade darker. Arkansas is gorgeous, but two years ago, I ... livestock is dwindling, replaced by the distasteful urbanity of a Southern ... somewhere about how “crying on public transport” is symptomatic of being in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class. Someone did a presentation on how cringe culture is dead, or how ... impact of One Direction itself. High school is an awkward time. I was a ... , it also made me reflect on how much I tied my worth and identity to One

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021