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• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and ... the summer, and I was going to limit the number of external cycles I ... “compromise” with myself was that I wouldn’t sit as the chair of the REX

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  outside of Lusaka. A guesthouse, where foreigners often stay. A school ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... (Peace Corps, CARE), 2) visited orphanages, schools, compounds, and 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  manuscripts from the School of Kerala, which showed their work in calculus and ... eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  tossing around the idea of leaving high school a year early until I had ... rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago ... for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... , after the winter/Christmas break). Regardless of schedules, MIT dorms are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  dermatologist and dentist notes to skip whole days of school, even though the ... pulled into the school parking lot, making sounds straight out of horror ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... time here thus far. So far on the blogs, I have written about two of them ... to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  , the local culture of the school dictates much more than stereotypes do ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of desperation. Each

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high-school ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  seven and the kids at school pull up the outer corners of their eyes, call ... Mom. My school was in the heart of Portland (one of the least diverse ... Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  my stupid way of showing myself that I had grown up from high school ... school demons are, in fact, gone because I overcame my fear of living on an ... I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  standard chess game, but the whole point of protochess is to design your own ... is designed to not be normal chess. We can design custom boards of up ... more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... is lots of fun with a variety of interesting threads (this is my

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  this so I can talk about the MATCH school. It's one of the many Community ... thing is important to explain, too. The school has lots of ways to ... spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005