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• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , from times I'd scrape my knee and then keep running, tearing the wound ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour, and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  my generally distracted state. When dead week rolled around and I had ... first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  's transportation systems]   Or even in the United States, we can use data and ... of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation ... figurative (and for many literal) feet, not only for the quality of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  everything we pushed aside and really feel it again. On and off, I’ve tried ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... blurred away as I get older and time goes on. What did she think about on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available at: decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and ... admission to MIT this year, the most in our history, and the first time the ... rich and varied backgrounds, perspectives, locations, and experiences

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... (during which time I slept, ate, ran, and got dog hair on just about everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may ... you and the way you go about pursuing those interests. The interviews

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  bought a few other things to go with it and yesterday I had tacos! That was pretty cool, because I like tacos. And it was only the second time I ever ... my tacos, because she fed me steak and potatoes once, so that seems

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a QuestBridge Finalist and ranked MIT, your QuestBridge application will be
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October ... Sferza and Professor Carlo Ratti. THe collaboration already brought to Sant ... Dinca, Department of Chemistry, and the “Mechanosynthesis Group”, led by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know that our prospective students (and their teachers, counselors, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  us through midterms and she offered me play dough in two different ... and expect promptness. I don't like sudden changes and I don't like when ... exactly where I've put things even if it's messy and out in the open and not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  degree program, and head into the “real world”, by March 2013. Prior to ... was literally and – perhaps more importantly – figuratively a one ... away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... people talking about “engineering leaders” and “engineering leadership.” I ... between generic leaders and engineering leaders? Truth be told, I’m still a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... My name is Keri Garel, and nothing else in my bio is true anymore ... bio that are immutable; my birthplace will never not be Jamaica, and my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015