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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  miles to get clean water for her family. Instead, she could spend that ... he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  , these were probably one of the most helpful things for me to learn because ... had to hunt for random topics and details to write about. There weren't particularly any places I was going to that I could write about, for example, so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to ... derp-project for anyone who still would like to see. Failed blog post ... candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  've always been the type of person who needed background noise to work. While ... for vacationing in Europe, learn some .NET, and put these four weeks to ... a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... they had time to talk. That person became a mentor to him, encouraged him ... for you to be able to predict which one is “best.” You narrow things

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  ="'didn't receive a sufficient score to qualify for credit for 18.01'"]failed ... days.[/annotation] i am a f r a i d to cook for myself and realize that ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  's super fun to hang out at and also makes for an unconventional date spot ... flower garden is incredible to walk through. This place is ideal for ... dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... -school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks during the summer. Unfortunately, the science options for the summer were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  microbes to essentially act as bio-computers. for instance, they develop ... last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... Myers–Briggs personality types. It stands for introversion, intuition ... new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... . I found out later that my mom, after waiting half an hour for me to ... as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  some space for it to move... And then, right below where the blade of the ... process. I guess that can also be what it feels like to go through personal ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  have liked to make up for lost sleep on Tuesday or Wednesday night, but ... 'm ready to sleep for the next 12 hours. Except I have 14.05 lecture again at ... Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  unknowns, possibilities, and decisions for me to explore, and I'm glad that there are, but I'm glad at least to have a road to follow for the next ... , and was given ample opportunity to learn about it, for which I am

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  interviewers) to work setting up chairs for this large crowd! During the meeting ... thank the ECs for their help, we went out to dinner together. From left to ... hacks or whatever, and you'll be talking to one excited MIT person. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station subway stop and forking over 15 bucks for the next bus to NYC. No ... -stuffed pancakes, and duck bone soup for less than 5 bucks. Northbound to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  people ever refer to your dorm as home m: i personally do though some ... 'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  videos for me so I could use them in this blogpost so huge thank you to him ... for having girlish interests, and it was a really difficult thing to ... relied a lot on One Direction for my happiness, using them as motivation to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  (Doors open at 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium (Here's a link to the online CPW ... and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with ... 't worry - you WILL have a host and a place to stay once you get here. We

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  . I guess it makes more sense for people not familiar to MIT. But ... sure it's up to scratch. I was invited to attend a meeting for the ABET ... person at MIT to have that exact major. Which I find pretty awesome. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007