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• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... 'm not in fact a bioengineering major, because I can't see myself doing ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact ... : I don’t believe in the impact of my work, and I’m not challenged in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the ... class syllabus, just because I can. Required Reading: 1) MIT Hack Gallery

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... : I read something online that said, “There are 30,000 days in your life ... molecules. Reformulate the equation. In short, I want you to hack the world

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... 'm not sure they know I have these pictures but I was in the group text

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  interested in writing, mathematics, and computer science. It turns out I can ... different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from ... notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in ... collapsed onto my seat, breathing out in exhaustion. “Classic Vincent,” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... . Can you tell that I didn’t sleep much? I had already learned Freshman

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... 's see if we can involve stairs in this bad idea somehow. 15:17 - 16

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... Graduate Resident Advisor (GRA) in a different dorm. I’ll be leaving my a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the ... itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  . Instead, I can be happy and content and find meaning and value even in ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?   ... . Everything was going to be different, for better or worse. I needed to, in many

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011