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• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there ... friends at the ARC lend you a helping hand. They insist that you'll do fine

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... rolled around, I didn't tell anyone. In fact, I was in a hotel room ... deferred, only 194 were accepted. That's 1.8%. I've heard a lot of things

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was ... email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  away in a separate bin. Tap water in Cambridge is potable. That ... shows I’ve watched since birth, and that media consumption played a big ... something reminds me that I’m not in the Philippines anymore. Often, it’s the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... from back then is a conversation with a nice man on the elevator— “How do

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  do about it. I think that this is a pretty cool piece of East Campus ... camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... past year that is a wall completely filled by handprints in a variety of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  the groove of working through a task now that I’m in the second week of ... being bored. One of the best parts of working at a smaller company is that ... intern is a productive intern… but also an annoying intern”. So I try to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  's what's been going on in my life. Yesterday in 6.002, somebody brought a ... equivalence. I actually thought it was just a rabbit-shaped handbag or something ... '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have ... . How is that lucky?" "Simple, they run away from me with a negative

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  , Composites has been doing a lot of research in carbon fiber and I have to say ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  whose lab I work in, who is also my biology academic advisor, and he just emailed back saying that it is "mature and thoughtful... I wouldn't change a ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  , confusion means I’m learning, and isn’t that what I came here to do? So I re ... Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun ... is brownies. Wednesday is moon cakes Thursday is an oatmeal cookie I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  (I won’t get into that in this post). To the right is an enlarger ... Association. In addition to photography classes (I usually take one a term), the ... uses a lot of water. You can see in the photo above that there are two

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... gang!" Anyway, one part is true- I did save a life. At least, I hope I ... no," I groaned, as one of the nurses babbled into a cell phone that she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ordinary in the sense that it is common. A meal is also beautiful because it ... interested in food. This isn’t a restaurant; this is a dream workshop.” I was ... often marks the start of a recipe, and by that understanding, 'mince' is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... something is still broken. That’s a problem, because the more tired I get, and ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... curiosity revived in me. I remembered that I love puzzles and thinking ... reference: In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from The­orem 3 in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  quietness in the room, something I didn’t readily expect. It’s obvious that a ... someone walking and drinking a coffee in a rush, like we do in the states. I ... of the commute, but I do recall one thing: we drove through a really

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... dorm where each resident has a score that determines their priority in ... predicting which values might have a low selection frequency. I thought that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020