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• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  feel two opposite feelings? how can we both want and not want something ... with some more contradictions. for one, i (don't) want to do work. i ... , like working on firehose, or making more write-ups about math, or writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  . The weather machine was working great, almost unbelievably so. After ... . So the “going incognito” plan didn’t work out great, but I enjoyed it ... was loving it. Back on hall, my friends and I worked and talked in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... instinct is to try and problem-solve. Usually, this works—I'll figure out ... mitigate it. This time, however, it's not clear to me what the source is. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because ... had made it to their senior year of high school (when many others do not ... every aspect of our application process. When I tell people I work in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then more work and then chilling with friends and doing household chores. I ... . But that's not what this post is about. This is an attempt to find the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the ... Stoots. Be sure to hire him for your next major concert. I try not to endorse ... vicinity of 66 just because why would such totally random number not be right

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to just email them and not post on a blog :) " Thanks, Fabrice, that ... because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  Quartet because it’s the musical we are currently obsessing over, not even ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... another 10+ hour pursuit, was just not wanting to make a rash decision. “I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... ”. They are rather graphic lyrics and people seem not to notice this ... full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... to sing a lot?" Boyfriend: "Not really...but she has a really big ... prod week: not so much. The acting, though - the dancing, the singing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... years ago now, and sharing those memories with someone else, working with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  to central and hit two places and cart things back. not too bad ... that, i've done a decent amount of website work, which is great ... like working on now (let you know what it's about later) so i'm gonna cut

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  stop typing for more than 7 seconds.   This works to cook up a ... don't like publishing half-baked work. I like to knead the doughy first ... other bloggers reassure me that that is not the case. When I don't feel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  community, both from resources and culture, I would not be working on my ... countless nights working on Aero/Astro problem sets in the student center

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  . Working the dream. Moving up. Outside, there are food trucks with long ... ! Not to spoil anything, but it features JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). And two members of hall worked at JPL this summer! One of them also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... the first snow. I remember people explaining how frostbite works. I ... laughing than working. I remember slicing planaria in half and watching them

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  not have pondered before but I bet now need to know the answer to: what ... this look easy (and do amazing, amazing work). Some important questions ... work? what about invisibility cloaks? why do we have snot? why do we fart?

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  participate. Camping equipment is available, if needed. For those that do not ... -ish of field work), had a really good friend who graduated in Course 12 ... unintentionally (I'm working on this whole photogenic thing).   P

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  about the work of so many talented MIT undergrads and professors, who ... . Of course not everyone stayed in the same field, like my dear roommate ... her PhD through MIT’s Operations Research Center and is now working at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  . Would they ask about housing? The meal plans? Greek life? How to not rip ... prefrosh asked how I balanced my work, sleep, and social life. My answer was "Simple. I do my work during the day, sleep during the night, and hang out

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014