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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the ... ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  up a quick 20 euros. But the catch is that I get free breakfast ... in my last entry. I wanted to title this entry "Now I'm a little boy ... at a Spanish tapas bar. I for one was shocked to discover that tapas

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh ... Alevels which are graded exams in all the subjects that we do, will these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... sidewalks, I’m reminded that a different kind of season defined by academic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  . That something is match. We talk a lot about match here at MIT ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... school. I still keep in touch with a few friends from there. They did well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  developed all that we learn today. This is eye-opening since I’ve never really ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... the mechanical philosophy demands that there is a God. As Garber writes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  . I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in ... ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed ... everything that was yet to come. This is where my life begins, I thought. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  about that. To be willing to risk and to explore. I'm sorry in a way that ... ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is ... point in going into science. And so what we have to do is convey our

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  sticker above it is a picture of Simmons that I found in the Simmons Room of ... and I do find it to be pretty rigorously true. Right below that is a ... , that I strive to live up to, Especially, "She is clothed in strength and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  , doing, this, for approximately as long as I want. It is, in its own way, a ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... moment is not particularly exciting, although I do feel a sense of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  after that, but I do remember everything going dark. A few days passed ... bloggers can do that for you in the comments. For now, I’ll just tell you ... start at the beginning. Now that I think about it, the beginning makes a

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  --almost exclusively failed, in fact--that I am not even a little bit scared of public ... weaknesses. It’s fine that the one kid has a 100% in math or whatever--I know ... things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... . Also it's back in Los Angeles in a dumpster somewhere. The new toilet is ... like the surprise when I tell people I'm doing a calendar called Ben

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  . as ankita talked about in the post i linked, renovation is a big deal ... for a lot of things i've been doing; that maybe it's not out of actual ... feel like i need to do. so… even if there is one more year that i could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... . What I mean is, if, hypothetically speaking, everyone in a class got an A ... it really is that hard. In general, I think the high school philosophy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  in college. I mean, this is a normal experience, right? People building ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... OF MY LIFE. 1c) A quick dinner is followed by MITSO rehearsal. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  everywhere. I didn’t have a car in high school, or a license for that matter ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015