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• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes to try and find where my academic interests lie. I'm taking as many ... ,[/annotation] and a few additional classes I find interesting. A: Why do you want to ... able to participate in a few things where I've been able to support

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  show to put together a meme set where everyone spun a prop that they ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my ... try to walk through to find my friends at a crowded party, greeting ... leading me down a place where I can never recover from? It’s extreme to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... , you will find one, even if you have to bang down a few intimidating ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex ... need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  -wide chapter is the lack of housing options. It’s difficult to find a place where ... older, he understood where this instant camaraderie came from--a shared ... after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  my power, find my story and be able to tell it in a strong and powerful ... extraordinary thing to witness and to be a part of. We live in a country where we ... 'll hear a new story and remember it, find new hope and latch on to it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder ... capitalists and founders" and "a low-code authentication solution". To which my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... , and my day to day thoughts while in Ethiopia into a single, coherent piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  a lot of emails asking about where the Zoom links were, to which we ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  , you'll find good company here. Telling students they have to learn a ... 't think so. I think I will simply have to find a different path to reach my ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007