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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  from the situation and moving on. After high school, I felt like I had ... high school was just pretty hard. I had 6 or 7 B’s on my transcript ... process, like anything else. You get up. You move on with your life. You

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  wanting to be flown back home because he can’t work on the grounds during ... on takeoff, but he made a high-performance takeoff, pulling up just in ... at the beginning of the show that there was an “escaped convict” on the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... ended up spending a lot of my time over on the east side of campus, which ... handle on what that means now. I haven't pulled an all-nighter yet to do

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  pamphlets, hand-outs, and websites, all expounding on their respective college ... same dilemma. On MIT’s admissions website, we claim that “MIT is one of ... research, MIT, and life in general. One digression led to a conversation on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  meal plan program back on campus got canceled. We share the same ... . After orienting ourselves and collecting my luggage, we hopped on a ... had recently acquired and was proudly wearing on its windshield

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  measure of his success on Election Day) the guy behind possibly the most ... .).  Even Obama got in on the fun. But it's not just that FiveThirtyEight was ... ’t have a tenure track position." (on why he hasn't open-sourced Five

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  America, breathing, stretching, dancing, hiking, subsisting on a half ... originally was hopeful enough to think I'd bring carry-on). The hardest thing ... still, back on campus after a few jam-packed days of orientation, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... , you may find yourself fortunately positioned such that...and on and on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  't like feeling a vibrating reed on my tongue, I shuffled into the band room ... act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... instruments, I dropped the trumpet on my lap, swung the flugelhorn to my lips

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in ... for a real adventure. It all started with my mom’s DVD set on National Parks. Or did it all begin when I read an article on the epic Dipsea Race

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... better approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair ... ; recommendations will need to be on paper and mailed to the admissions office. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  most shows are taking holiday breaks, I've been able to catch up a bit on ... it airs on, in case you're curious): 25. Cash Cab - Discovery Channel ... on Nickelodeon...) 17. America's Best Dance Crew - MTV 16. Survivor

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  to click on that link.) I taught two classes: Intro to HTML, which I ... Edgerton, the Edgerton Center has a lot of stuff going on. But first things ... means "mind and hand.") They still operate a strobe laboratory on the 4th

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  (“You’ve landed on the ‘Guidance Counselors’ Office.’ Collect your letters ... will validate years of hard work and sacrifice, and set you on a new and ... decisions will make a profound impact on the rest of our lives. My classmates

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the ... forum on ther MIT site but didn't succed...:( i would like to speak with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... Star Wars: Musical Edition. But, yes, Revenge of the Sith did come on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  here -- can you see the MIT sticker on his helmet? Rocket scientist by ... administered by the medical school. I hopped on the CT2 bus last Friday to go buy ... will still be living on the MIT campus next year -- Adam and I are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... the project my postdoc and I have been working on to the entire Picower Center. And since my postdoc is an MD/PhD and goes to the hospital on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  opportunity to elaborate a little on what she said, because it's an interesting ... stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of ... geeky. I mean, yeah, they're more traditional, but come on, this is MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games on ... flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day ... about a lot is: on its own, life doesn't mean anything at all we don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024