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• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... new opportunities (I'm sure many of you are similar). In the past, I ... . [Although I'm using this in reference to life at MIT, recognizing small

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I totally love that I started a web browser war in the comments thread of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program ... the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously ... away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest ... unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the ... in time for half-price burgers. After that, I went over to visit with a

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can't help but feel ... 's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of ... trickle in: I see packing boxes, suitcases rolling into Next House; I hear

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... be more of a title than anything else, and I can definitely relate to this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In ... cheat sheets is no walk in the park. They can take hours, predominantly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... we can send in additional information like EA deferees?" You may ... touch. MIT Hopeful wrote, "I believe in an earlier post Mr. McGann had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i ... ! i hope i can too someday! but i didn't get the part about kevin. i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  Wednesday already?!" I know, I know, it's all I can keep thinking about too ... , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that ... you a Paula Abdul song if my life depended on it. I hang my head in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road ... , I’ve been exploring some of the nature in the Boston area. I went down ... from the world. The second was a bit of a “prove to myself that I can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  much better. (In fact, I liked the idea so much that I ordered a custom ... -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... , I thought that was the coolest thing that you could do with 3D

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013