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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!

  

  't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... people regularly wears a SARS mask. In fact, as an American I find a lot ... comes on everything, even pizza and once I ate a burger with a hole in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... to change my mind, so I did. 3) Choose a new major I had no idea what ... change of major form. I declared a minor in computer science to put my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... in. Before this summer, I thought a lot of AI-based start-ups were ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... barbecue chicken pizza as well. I sign in, shove a bread roll in my mouth ... my class: a dozen, maybe, or more. People want to learn about what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... 's also in the set, if you make it small enough. Eg I = (a, b), a, b real ... compelling poems, and get a better sense for what I want my poetry to be. For

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  initial downtime before the screening. We had a near full house in 26 ... On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26 ... on, it turned out that MIT was also in talks with Disney for a general

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... the work and hand it in 24 hours before the supervision so that they

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  ! In what should have been a predictable chain of events, however, I am ... ones, but I figured that I’d need them in a small college dorm. They also ... now I use one in bed, one for out-and-about, and gave one to a friend

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... display at the Media Lab, or a bunch of physics demonstrations. I also hear there will be blimp racing somewhere? Oh, and glass blowing! I caught a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in ... GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday, [annotation note='I suggest you go practice logging in there now, so that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  helped me discover what kind of environment I look for in a career! ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  minutes before lifting, I sit in a corner and nibble on a breakfast cracker ... a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In ... I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  pineapples and a few things that should be made mandatory at every meal. I show ... reactions, you should realize that I spent the past several hours, from before ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in ... ] Showing my age I used the slang word "slay" in a conversation the other day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  pamphlets and straightening the table cloth. After a while I checked to make ... caught up in my work I missed (just some lab stuff and a PSET to do) and I ... published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  research for the past three years in a UROP with Professor Robert "I ... turned in a problem set that was 47 pages long. CPW rocked it, yo. Special ... preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed ... be in. Still, during my first year in undergrad, when I was awarded a scholarship to attend a business conference held in Manhattan, I immediately

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022