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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for transfer in the spring. I’d have a plethora of extracurriculars. I wouldn ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  can do this, too, since I'm way better at programming than she is ... process is a combinination of nature and technology, as illustrated in part ... accessories. OK, so maybe it′s not that common of a story. Regardless, what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters - compared to that, Twin Peaks is merely a foothill!) Polish mountains are ... - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... - so I wanted to be on a functional adult 9-5 schedule. Seattle is ... something that I think was lacking in my internship last year, and I already

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  you are doing badly in the class or anything - it is just that it would ... paper covered in blue ink. It turned out that I wasn't a bad writer ... professor. As a result, I wasn’t able to present the material in a way that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  am leaving this place, I am going to America." So that's me, in a ... 's what a lot of them do through Career Fair). In short, Career Fair is an ... tossing around a Frisbee in front of Killian Court at dusk. I still remember

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . Who am I? I am an MIT student. But what does that mean? It's no longer a ... ? A prototype of who I will be? Somewhere in the middle? Right now ... paradoxical certainty in that nothing is certain. There is no sure-fire way to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  intimidating. I say that a lot. I mean, other professors have (jokingly?) put ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it ... the CS/math majors I know are in this class, including a '14 down my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived ... about going to MIT was that I wouldn't have the time to do as much ... community service things that they do in Boston and Cambridge and all over the

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

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  . Boston is cold in the winter. It truly is. I’m just starting to feel that ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... to work with other people. Choosing a dorm that fits you is also

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  ’t know that most Jewish music was in Hebrew or Yiddish, and I didn ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group ... performing in Attleboro, Spring 2011 Techiya is also a very social group

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to ... realized that my nine-digit social security number is prime. I don't quite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  frosh again in the best possible way: I felt as though MIT is a place ... that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt ... to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... when I was finished: ...this is despite the fact that I moved out ... , because now I can put up a few photos from moments that were good enough to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  student that I am working with is a third year PhD student working on the ... that I wasn’t doing it right. I think I’m on a good track right now, and ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  in each color. A zero indicates that there is no hazard in that ... all of them, is the one that gets posted in the 38-600 lab as a warning ... radioactive sign is this sign What's a class 3b laser? It's a laser that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before ... , really just light up a room." To which I quickly replied, "Oh, I'm just in ... would not be saying that." And I said this, I felt a little sad. Was this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  in her room and didn't even realize that... a few...had leaked out ... So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  there) I think it's safe to say that there is a lot of stuff that goes on here. Unfortunately I can only mention in passing that the president of ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in rage comic form. I don't actually read reddit, but most of my friends do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011