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• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  would be missing the point.  Being valued and appreciated for who you are ... I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... -on-one conversations with students about their dreams and aspirations, and I hope that I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be ... , where my family is and I return for the holidays, where I can get behind ... decide: my friends here are awesome and I wouldn't trade them for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... an attorney for McGuireWoods, LLP. And I have two more friends entering ... Los Angeles and a stint clerking for Glenn L. Archer Jr., who was chief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... -- write them, put them in a drawer for a few days, come back, revise, and ... yourself into a human being for the admissions officers -- and from what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... the same thing I am and it's both humbled me and empowered me. My post "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  -chemical basis for the structures of nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates ... 's inarguably important and useful for neuroscience. 9.09J/7.29J (Cellular ... classes, and some of you are probably curious about the classes offered at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... annual show is then and we spend all of January preparing for it. formals ... friends and being able to hang out with my whole class for the first time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  digital format, present both the lesson and design plan to instructors for ... and energized for 3 hours. (I honestly don't know how people at ... and embarrassed. For those of you who are wondering, my project was a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  , I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have ... getting the money and saw an ad for some smart pen, something called the ... because, frankly, I believe it's an amazing tool for this place (MIT) and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about ... , for instance, that chocolate has six crystalline states and that heating ... to differentiate and label its products. This group has a thirst for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  spontaneous and disorderly, and our parental need for control tends to derail ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... spontaneously reaching for the flip video camera when my son refused to eat his

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  most. I am not fond of these echoes. And I think it's for these reasons ... had come home for Columbus day weekend and everything was fine. In fact ... for the first time in a year and a half is incredibly jarring. I have no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... all danced like crazy people, and then we hung out for the remainder of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  these conversations are a way for you and for us to learn about each other ... those interests, and think about why MIT would be a good place for you ... a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn ... or valuable for my own learning and growth. Less abstractly, what I ... internships for next summer, and to be honest, I would love to do something cool

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  for freshmen to form big groups which study and do problem sets together ... available -- my friend Stephen '05 was a tutor for biology, and he held court ... and life. For serious problems, you might also consider speaking with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  With Earth And Life that is the Boston traffic. This at least allows for ... , the opera is over, and the curtain falls. We get to clap hard for all ... Saif, my physics teacher and advisor, cheer for the actors, which is fine

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, rowed for the Varsity Women's Crew, and did Navy ROTC. In her preflight interview, Stefanyshyn ... And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  one. I could write a lot about what this meant for me, and maybe I will ... ’t think about physics at all for the first half of 2020, and then I got to ... hoped, and it’s significant, and I’m grateful for that. I started

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  martini glasses. I thought it was ice cream for about an hour and wondered ... , Boston's tallest building) for some warm cookies and tea. Though it had ... to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006