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• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  state than before.  I got to her room just as she started vomiting, and I ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... change is real, and the result of human activity. The evidence is ... ), and the rise is clearly associated with fossil-fuel burning. Global sea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... , including an int'l olympiad medal)." Don't worry about the writing, and your ... point where it is clear that they are 'qualified' and could succeed as far

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  state of mild euphoria from the excess of new friends and creativity and ... Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library hacking away at a problem set or studying, there exists an equal and ... couple weeks second semester has really got going quick, and I now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ARE HARD Sophomore year: What? Classes start tomorrow and there ... through the majority of my GIRs and my premed requirements - and while all

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... anyone directly saying that women were inferior to men and immediately got a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  . Well, Sang’s Canadian now. But he grew up and went to university in South ... that they chose me – the inexperienced and very young intern – to travel ... opportunity to go on that trip, and to help make connections and friendships

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  housing over the summer, trickling in from EC and MacGregor on August 13th ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the ... -blasting and food-producing chaotic swing of things. We were - we are - so happy

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  sunshine and picnics and flowers and laundry detergent commercials (you know ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  , and I'm happy to say that I suffer from this painful disease that seems ... this point, there's no cure except fervent studying and the occasional ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for Admissions, but when was the last time I sat down and let myself draw or paint without expectations? My high school friend Deelia is an art and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... now i mostly just want to learn a lot and work on meaningful technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a ... revelations and possible blog beginnings and half-baked stories into one mess of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  more to do with his concern for my sleep-deprived state and less to do ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... actually was, except that there were latkes and they were SOOOO good. I made

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  (home of the OLPC) and its description states that it is Intended for ... day of real classes. That's because I got uber lucky and only have one ... , but the professor seems to know what he's doing and the material so far

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Venkataraman, who directs global policy initiatives for the Broad Institute and ... reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... .115[/annotation] Microcomputer Lab, taught by Prof. Steve Leeb, will sit high and ... laborious and difficult yet so so worth it. I signed up for 6.115 because I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023