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• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... not true) and I just don’t even really remember what it feels like to be ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... surprising number of late nights and amount of last-minute tooling this term ... .614 (Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures), and I knew from the previous

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Julie Gerberding and Compton lecturer Tom Brokaw, for example. We've also ... , written by MIT Professor Robert Tavernor), Hayden Christensen, and even ... finals are done and not during the actual term, but that's just the way it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  , it has to be extremely hot: between one and two thousand degrees ... post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  -sets and rarely have tests. Sweet, right? No homework sounds great! Aha! But ... Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  curses, sexual shenanigans at Rutgers University and secret police raids in ... not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have ... (Matt's? Ben's?) that took me aback. It was shortly after CPW, and one of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... Heisenberg operators for position and momentum obey an analog of Newton ... -cinnamon mousse. That night, I put on a dress and makeup and did my hair, slipped my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  current state of the world, and damn, does it hit hard. highly recommend ... lot and are either binge-watching Netflix shows or sleeping for ungodly ... particularly tedious. we don't have classes for the next week and a half, so we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  enduring symbol of class pride and school spirit. And right now for MIT ... ...a realization that is at the same time frightening, humbling, and empowering ... 've spent together so far, and to toast the next two years of our MIT journey

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  Scott Stephens ‘14, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for ... delightful high schoolers, and interviewing with a reporter from the newspaper

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  States was hit by a devastating snowstorm this past weekend. The storm, which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... ). We were on an inbound Red Line train, and the conductor kept adamantly announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was ... know if a better time works.") to no avail. Eventually, I left, and one ... that this company was not going to provide me the growth and learning

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I usually prefer busses to more expensive and less environmentally friendly planes, unless ... to Illinois, which was as ridiculous and as fun as it sounds. But

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  your house, the car is at the shop, and you don't have any firearms. What ... us his great humor, vigilante vision, and sick drumming talent, as I ... to rise. The shrewd cretins had shut down roadways and laid waste to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... ) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007