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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  confident in what I want out of life? I don’t know. But all I can do is keep ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... zillions of essays. Over and over again. I literally wrote something in the ... out quite a bit about myself when I was writing essays, so it can be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  , I applied for an undergraduate research position in the Media Lab. As ... it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... it being. After all, it's just a ball with holes in it, right? I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving ... how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... . One thing is certain: if I am invested in you - and you know who you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  show in the past year can come, and cast his or her vote. There are four ... 'm writing my thesis, which is in product design. I'm taking 2.72 - Elements of ... interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  excite me, and I can see the direct utility in the material I'm learning ... , even the most excruciating failure can become a valuable asset.  I know ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in

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

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... Conner in the Class of 2024 Discord. Most of the questions I got about BC

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Advisor Steering Committee, which means that I work with the other AAs in ... resouces are available, so that we can point our friends and dorm-mates in ... Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to ... design. Every year, Ring Comm, the group of students in charge of ... details of the 2019 ring include the euro symbol in the background behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  feel old? Well, I, as a prematurely wizened twentysomething, can tell you it isn't any fun. My bones creak and ache and I can tell when the weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  name and address in almost every frame, that I can never post it publicly ... day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS ... unboxing it. It was quarantine week, so I had to hold my phone in one hand

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  is, in fact, the only frequency I can demonstrate." 7.23, Immunology ... .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my ... about things I'm sure you all think about in bed -- structural chemistry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to ... during the play-ending thunderstorm. Still, I can't complain too much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling ... 've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I ... I could come in and tinker with the stretchers a little bit. And thus

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don ... circumstances, the right attitude. An example. In High School, I was the captain

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  As I've blogged before, many students who are interested in MIT are also interested in high school research competitions, including (but not ... volunteer judges to review student projects. All students in grades 9

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one ... in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT ... of that, thank you. I'm 2A-CIR. Now, what in the hell does that mean

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I ... projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... /or had contributed greatly in a way that people would be surprised about… I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017