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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  my Breath I was able to think more clearly after about a half an hour ... me the importance of consistent work. The same way that speaking to ... attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... : before disappearing again. Back to blank wall. We figured that someone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... important details, which mentioned that the pillow fight would be happening on

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  other on the coming year's truly important admissions-related issues. To ... to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  guided by service to our mission, which I tend to summarize as utilizing ... work are committed, first and foremost, to helping young people reach their aspirations. Even though the challenges faced vary from role to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I'm nearly halfway done.) But let me start with the most important part: I am ... Committee. I'm pleased to say that they also have some pretty good taste

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  . It’s not every day that I get to spend a solid hour just talking about ... restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... cross country team dinners; it’s where MIT students say they’d like to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  material can be a struggle, but open office hours are a great opportunity to ... wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  will be precooked, and very small. We're not ready to spend 8 hours ... flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  Tuesday evenings, for three hours, and during each class you’d get to hear ... been ripped to shreds in the span of an hour. The other thing was that ... reality, and, more importantly, it bore no resemblance to an interesting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  recording things. I tend to keep important dates and notes in my head, which ... attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you do not spend eight hours a ... great for another person. The most important thing is that you go to a ... important there is to know about me and my interests?" Those are questions I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I ... One seemingly minor, yet important, change I've noticed between ... of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  product, and proceed to spend every waking hour of their lives (it seems ... glad that if I had to spend 40 hours a week in lab, at least I got to ... blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  some alliteration and parallelism to connect important, related ideas. Be ... start of your sentence, paragraph, or essay and to put the more important ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... living group--from the dorms to the FSILGs (Fraternities, Sororities and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015