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• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8-minute monologue; for a club where I teach oral storytelling; and for 2 ... fun relatable way, which is a more powerful tool for me. [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  much progress I can make if I consistently go to the gym for a year! I ... Hey! That's this. Yes, I love blogging and I think it's a great way for ... getting a domain. It'll basically just be a hub for all the stupid things I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a ... formula for the height of the well: . A bit overwhelming, isn ... has a high entropy. In chemistry, the entropy for chemical substances

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  playlist; tw: suicide mention briefly Today, I interviewed for a ... 'm a loud, outspoken individual. For the most part at MIT, my character ... feels normal or even almost too bland for MIT, my personality in a non

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  to get a feel for what different research areas are like. Get to know ... write a recommendation letter for you. Also, these professors are at MIT for a reason; talk to them a bit about their research and you might

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... description and some timeslot shuffling managed to secure us a spot for our ... for Splash twice before, both times teaching a subject titled "

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  create community for South Asians and provide a space to talk about ... take the four seats. For a while, we talk about different things: classes ... our way. We look around for a while, Sarah and Bhuvna get Yale merch and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  : "What if I tend to write meticulously enough for a paper to seem d ... choices work well for us in bringing out a student's character and personal ... recommendations need to come from a teacher who's known me for at least a year and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  with Ethan[/caption]   A solidarity banner for the deceased ... be a free-food style mailing list but for people willing to do odd jobs ... note="a freshman learning community that was great but wasn't for me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  and, for the first time in a week and change, didn’t have anything much ... about it, asked for advice, crowd-sourced opinions as to what a reasonable ... interactions with the brothers, we think you’d be a good fit for SAE, whether now

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  on a client-facing team building a brand new feature for the Play ... allowed even more flexibility. This made for a great work-life balance; I ... other words, the past three months were a completely new experience

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up ... definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  later (on a timer still for the sake of the game :P), but at this point we ... chose the prompt "Write about a useless fact" for two reasons: I know ... conversations i regretted my decision for a solid 15 mins because i was like uhhh

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  elitist and shallow, but also I grinded for top grades and a high SAT score ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example ... much of a case for why self-knowledge is important, and I’m not sure I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  - where bio majors do a research project for the semester right before ... and their youth for the things they were passionate about. Now, as a ... for a final exam - how many nights I've wolfed down free platters of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... for a few seconds, as if to convince me it was real, and not a spark of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  the bureaucracy for refusing to let me take one over a minor ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  got a question for you along the same kind of topic lines of WFH; how ... more and more a platform solely for like post a picture/poll/quick update ... So, let me set the scene for the [annotation note="Some would call it

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  very close to classes. Anecdotal proof: --- For five years, I'd had a ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the ... pops for the occasion. After the party and a birthday cheesecake for one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the ... food restrictions that people had (for instance, Hendrik was a vegetarian ... built a lot of fun little things. I made a sound effects module for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013