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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... officer forgets to transfer a mailing list. i've seen some success with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines ... . After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly ... parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... that I've grown to dislike my time in California. Only a little bit ago I ... 've learned in life this past semester. Breakups I know this is a bit personal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the ... new ELL (Engineering Leadership Lab) team in a Diverse Connections ... so difficult? We’ve all been in the position of trying to do a group

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  ” before realizing that I made a tumblr post and not an MIT Admissions one ... a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  or something in USNWR), I have a wonderful wife, two wonderful children ... my passions like playing in a rock band. I'm happy with who and where I ... wrote. Honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed -mm] Without a doubt, the students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I finally saw a shoulder with a pair of shiny stars on it, I giddily tapped ... , each of us immediately felt a little out of place. We were standing in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the ... because they give me a chance to tell people what they mean to me. i don ... -of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  matter the outcome, I wrote a thank-you card for someone in my life. It ... .) Be a Tourist in Your Own Home I'm originally from Jim Thorpe, a small ... a Deep Breath  In a few days, it will mark one year since I was

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  schedule out there. Tests introduce a whole new variable in time management ... situation (How did company A react when it developed budget cuts? What did ... last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  generally know what i want and i take care of myself a lot better. i ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be ... in the summer (and i do have a couple more posts planned for that), but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  study. So maybe now you've got a great idea of what you're interested in ... school before you set foot in Cambridge. Back home, what was your answer ... the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  -ops"]collectives[/annotation], and it requires thinking about the humanities in a way that I've never really considered before. I'm in a group called CarePod, which is an ... semester is what I came to MIT for - to learn a bunch of really awesome

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  , well, IAP. Oops. :) So, here's a quick recap of what I've done so far ... a day, Monday through Friday, I'm taking 6.189 - a crash course in ... here's a look at what I'll be doing for the next three weeks: More

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not ... results in a reaction at the right place at the right time... unless you ... wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't ... a bit harder than what I was comfortable with, and I got a lot of ... Precision was also a good way to let other people know what I was up to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  banged, what happened before it banged, or what caused it to bang ... wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros ... , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  the Computer Club.Actually,what I want to know in a very straightforward ... explaining a special circumstance in your case. anonymous wrote, "I am a high ... interviewing in India. I don't know what we will discover, but feel free to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005