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• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a ... to read this blog entry that I wrote a number of years ago sharing some ... any particular outcome, there is value in parents checking their ego

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... . a couple moments later, Jett hands me the cube and asks if i know what ... with a shiny, heavy cube before this, i would not have thought anything

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... day, technology stepped in, in a big way. So my mom and I have a pretty ... just keep that in mind too. I know this a lot to think about, and this

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  'll get to some answers next time I check in. EDIT: I stuck a really super ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  happy with what I have. The work environment I'm in is suffocating. I ... really came. I always believed that if I found myself in a situation like ... , it was a culmination of everything I feared. What if the problem really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Princess Bride reference. What can I say, I'm a sucker for happy endings. Yes ... eat breakfast with all of our stuff just in the cafe. I got a Sunrise ... programming course taught in [annotation note="a programming language I was not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... done that.) I did a photographic tour of my suite back in August, which ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  in time for half-price burgers. After that, I went over to visit with a ... pretty much the weekend in a nutshell. Tomorrow, it's back to work and I ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... all of this before I chose him, but given that the other options were a ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  the email to the floor, a few people responded…and then tons more. What ... out should be an established habit. Cheers to a healthy & vivacious ... Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does) go to market; they present their products at a huge event before impressive industry judges.  I should note that 2.009 is possibly the awesomest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a ... research, progress at a standstill-- that is still what I love about it ... forever, and in some sense it never could. I'm stepping into a empty space

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... semester, and I can't wait to experience what it has in store! If you have

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... listening to the soundtrack as I type, it's just that good. A skate home

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... handbooks, and I find a map in the 1959 version. Bingo! Of course, there ... , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  .[/caption] I have no ability to keep a calendar and have to check my class ... for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... acquired standards for friends). But what hit me the hardest was I realized I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time ... management so much, but there are dozens of us. So what do I do with such a ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012