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• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... a bright conglomerate of friendships new and old: three a ... easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  Physics of Living Systems in brand new Technology Square next to MIT in ... to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  Massachusetts, many of them aimed at women. Harley Davidson had a stall ... addressed me, both of us engineers at MIT. It caught me by surprise when some ... ’ve gotten better at interrupting explanations of mechanisms that I already

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  had my very first go at a New York Times crossword puzzle in the ... -end lab to one that we had at the beginning of the year and it more directly ... picturesque slopes and bridges of the city of Pittsburgh at 7am on a Sunday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  Board Games and Ice Cream Meet some of your new classmates through ... / the roof of Simmons Hall! Party it up as you break it down with new ... As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive ... think "Finding heritage at MIT" is one of my best-written entries. ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  part of elsewhere." There are many people who are welcoming at MIT, but ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came ... The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  means not a lot of people stare at me, but then, I also look more like my ... , people always stare at you if you look a little out of place. My mom said ... frontier of this new generation of people, who consider themselves global

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  back in New York pretty late at night. I came back home for Thanksgiving ... looked at the picture again. Not featured: a rare sighting of me at ... stadium was rather fun 9/19/21 At the beginning of the semester, my friend

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried ... variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends ... , and social sciences - classes during your time here at MIT.  Of those ... right at the bat of the semester.  At any other time, the grade you get on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  look at the new blue frit, standing out on top of the old white dots ... be the exact colors of my room in East Campus. At 11 pm we get another ... first." At the end of all my babble I don't even know what I've said. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you to everyone! I got this!” Person looks around at all of us, and ... minutes of poking my pencil at a paper, I hurried out of the exam hall and ... -MIT life, and something about the newness of everything, from American

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  parking lot, at the top of the mountain, a big muscular tattooed ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... of the instructor. I worked with Beth Coleman at WMBR for over a year

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  handful of colleges worth going to.   At the aforementioned ... to one of these "top" schools. Don't get me confused, I do work at MIT ... you'll thrive at "Big State University," and be sad here. I hope not

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013