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• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart ... it may seem like the “end of the world” to them (and fodder for yet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more ... have returned to my homeland safely. My apologies for not sending day 4's ... ." True, I have been living on Putz for three days prior to this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  public to Nepali for the first time, not reporting my findings to my ... grade shot up to the bar I set for myself, way back at the beginning of ... thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  , cowardice, pride), as opposed to feeling contrived for the sake of having a ... on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  sounds ridiculous, but this was our mindset for four years, from fifth to ... ="Our teacher for eighth grade U.S. History in School B happened to be the teacher ... surface.  For every essay we wrote in her class, she encouraged us to be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we had our own personal expert to guide us through the leitmotifs ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  broke me and my will to live for 45 long minutes. As I struggled upwards ... , because the stars would really have to be aligned for both of these paths to be available to me. I think it's because for the first time in my life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  environments to reflect their vibrant, irrepressible personalities. As for ... started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... also consumed my remaining free time for breakfast. To the unending

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  ’t have the “right personality” to be a physicist.  Enter JLab. For the ... and professors have, and continue to, think about the best way for ... . I knew I didn’t have to do it for them. But I had to do it for myself

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  subjected to personal taste and also otherwise i’d actually be exposed for how ... ); unfortunately for now, I’m not here to say any [annotation note="aside from maybe ... CAD makes for this to be pretty cheap anyway. ambience was really nice

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  finishing, not being able to eat my dinner, and then passing out for like four ... aspired to be the sort of person who could just get up and run obscene ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  the soundtrack for the ending scenes. These songs have come to ... making it hard to say goodbye, and for that I am extremely grateful. Here ... studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  chance to grow. There are three trillion trees out there for us to climb! ... favorite movie. If I saw or heard anything Tarzan-related, I'd beg them to ... my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  uninteresting person, this translates to me rarely blogging. Stay tuned, though, for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  for me to do than befriending older people), but then taking time away ... potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their ... after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

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

  

  to move out. For Next House, residents that weren't graduating had to ... building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

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

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still ... I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the ... Polaroid donating the portrait to MIT along with a 9000-piece collection of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a ... something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square ... Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013