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• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  find work I can absolutely lose myself in and put every beautiful thing I ... school, and I wanted to make sure I kept at it at MIT, where I was in such ... ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up ... day -- and I still needed to train in between everything as well. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... classes where I hear wildly, wildly different things from different people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab and organizing data to send to Andy in Switzerland so he can keep ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  immerses the user in a beautiful underwater story! I was the only extern ... . At some points, I literally had to repeat in my head “This isn’t real ... Management, and 3 in Unity Development. I was on the Unity team, and loved it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  differentiating factor. Where do I belong? Who do I want to be? Am I my teenage self? A prototype of who I will be? Somewhere in the middle? Right now ... depends on how much you can handle. What you are interested in. Your

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... think i’d strongly prefer a world where more people kept an explicit goal ... making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed ... detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process of the cells. Specifically, I adapted an electroluminescence imaging

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  me. But although I can't remember where I found the numbers, this is ... thing. I highly suggest it!) So does this mean that you can pour all of ... community college) and get good grades in them. And, of course, you can get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair ... quadrupled in the space of no time, and I felt that I really needed a lot more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the ... year's commencement was great but ultimately felt distant because I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  , Sleep; pick two" and just having been here a few months I can certainly ... that can be part of the challenge that's so exciting. I mean, would you ... 't! (That's usually how I made notecards in high school). Notecards are meant

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a ... For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  gratitude gets overlooked. There have been many moments where I felt ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  (actually, I don’t. But it’s the principle...). That’s where Maggie’s flowchart comes in-it takes all the worry out of pre-meet packing. You can ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... wonderful, taught by my role model Professor Sally Haslanger (in fact, I took ... in the medical field, and I plan to explore it more through summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017