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• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... to a very nice Afgan restaurant for a fancy meal (pictures at the end ... ahead for some of you, but say you're a freshman who chooses to live in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  them for too long your back will start hurting and then you'll need to go ... , which is a story for another time—i managed to snag seven tickets for some ... be a good person. I try to be a good person. It's hard to feel like a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  points to the person who can guess what they were for Halloween. :D ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a

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

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

  

  for no reason even though I'm a morning person. I also, obviously, still ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under the circumstances. I spent the last two weeks studying for finals

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

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  entire savings to make bail after being taken in for “looking suspicious ... to the assisted learning classes for disturbing the class by “asking ... am. Believing that for every good person there is a much more wealthy

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  to think about it, after all—but it shapes how I've been planning for ... few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my ... , and I'm very grateful for being able to wholly embrace a few months of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  having the chance to know you, and more hopeful for the world that you are ... for them. Congratulations to the Class of 2018. May the wind be ever at ... when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... . Watson and Crick found her to be a rather disagreeable person, which Watson

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was ... to check out a book for the first time (as it turns out, they exist for ... semester, chained to a computer, churning through JavaScript for just a facet

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... stools and matching curtains; sprinkle whiteboards to taste. Let simmer for ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  , studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I ... by Visa and MasterCard for currency conversion to Volaris. In return ... , demand for new routes, load factor per route, max willingness to pay for

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  personalities are totally different," she said. Both girls plan to attend MIT in ... -valedictorians set for MIT Originally posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by Adam Freeman ... school, so it's just wonderful that we're able to do this together and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for ... missing most of the pre-requisites for it. I hope to blog more about ... the work for them. P.S.: am I starting to sound like Buzzfeed yet?

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  character – for example, if this applicant were to show up wearing a jacket ... person inside). I’m trying to detect curiosity, intellectual drive ... for an applicant to warn me, 'ok, you'll recognize me by my pink hair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  circles with ease because that's the kind of person I wanted to be. But now ... myself to do it, thinking naively that I could be her for a night, but all ... person I had wanted to be in high school and college were destroyed. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while i wasn’t sure. most technical work doesn’t feel like magic to me - for ... social life. i want to be the kind of person everyone wants to date, they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One ... , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to go and signed up for the trip. It was an annual trip that the Boston

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... a great space to hang out with people, though, so i'm excited for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021