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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... failure. Because this girl is a bit soft-hearted like me, she cries alone in ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  send in supplements is a different question all together. Jess: Hi Laura ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... in one), but there was a lot of legal discussion and things like that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you ... will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  Education. RSI, which is free (except for the application fee), actually has a ... -qualified applicants is a daunting task. I'm excited about the choices we've made, while ... like Intel STS is because it is a great celebration of science research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  for a new show for high school kids. We were too old :-( In the ... getting snapped at by a vendor for analyzing the fruit too much, we began to ... 't say that I've sliced and diced much fruit in my past especially

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  show up with a check in hand asking how much it will cost," she says ... about Johnny and how wonderful he is and how a brand-name school is the ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  't care how much you like your temp assignment. I'm sure Mollie, who's a ... Back in Massachusetts! And Rush stuff is starting! *excited* There ... batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... a half out of my life -- but in some thermodynamically irreversible ... . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  Program (DRP). The DRP is a program run by the math department in which ... next thing. The issue is, that I don't know how long this feeling is ... -ish blogs and living. I know in theory that this feeling is okay, it just is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  (while I blush at them saying how impressive my academic background is ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  .01 (Physics) lecture isn’t really a lecture, since the class is taught in a TEAL ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high ... yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing ... cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  . The course, which recently has focused on the war in Iraq, is described as a class which "examines war in cross-cultural perspective, asking whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January? How about combining a study-abroad experience with an internship in ... Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  this hiatus; I can't express enough how much I love being part of this ... the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a ... made me prioritize my obligations in a messy and unhealthy way. I was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  be done, and walking around campus is not unlike walking around a 3 ... ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... paths because, let's face it, MIT is a broad and deep place to be immersed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  joked about how the opener, a band called The Weather Station, had a ... between the two lovers is steeped in racial and cultural differences. In ... everything there was to know about myself. I didn't know how easy it is to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. ... , started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more