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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  the rest of the night (morning?). I was, in fact, sitting around not ... luckiest person in the world, because one of those things is my career. And I kind of doubt I'd be where I currently am (nonliterally) if I hadn't met

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... souvenir corner, where I was stationed. Over the course of a single day, I ... detailed synopsis and cast list). I got involved in the process a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you ... early dinner at Wood & Tap, where I got to hear all about his adventures ... interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... . Where I’m From I am from paint smears, From pencils and paper. I am

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... self. I should have been in Lobby 7 making sure she coughed loudly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  with a friend." " In my moments of clarity I can ask myself what ... hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... it straight. It's easy to forget to check in--I don't call my parents

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... how in his first teaching job he taught a class where only one (or a ... he was commenting on the strange nature of virtual classes, where in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  classes Monday through Thursday means that I can't attend practices in full, but I've been popping in as much as I can, and I'm also tournament ... provides physical artifacts of each week, which can go in my [annotation note='i

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously ... away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  as early as you can! But since I was in such a time crunch, I printed ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  good things i have seen  recently, in no particular order at all. come ... because how can a small animal be so good (but maybe i'm just jealous 🤔 ... ? i didn't even know disney made songs that weren't in movies! bill

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  for students in grades 9–12.     On Wednesday, May 13th, I ... in the most wonderful of ways. I didn't know anything about ISEF ... I suspect I would have liked it. If you're potentially interested in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A ... concert So sad. The best I can do is a photo from the concert: 2. Did you ... 44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  much as I can to make it easier for myself in future [annotation note ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... November Sunday: I camped in the Hayden Library to crank out my essay. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  that I grew up in a community where I was able to even cultivate so many ... , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In ... essays are not advice, or even guidelines. I can only tell you what I did

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... . Not really, but yeah, I'm getting paid. BUT in my defense, I blogged all ... -than-perfect SAT scores aren't in that category. Karen answered this pretty well: "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  engine room where they feed it babies, or so I assume. Ok but seriously ... physics (in which case, I'll have to switch my major). The interesting ... ,at MIT you can do an IROP (close cousin to the UROP) study there If I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008