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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... 's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... fact that they traveled to Vegas and got in trouble with the authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... . See, I used to run. (Used to.) It was back in my freshman year of high

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... to see the gestalt, please look at this. in this sense gestalt and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... scratch. You get 20 minutes to escape the room and secure a UROP! As a part ... all of you! So, welcome to MIT ‘22s!! We can’t wait to get to know y

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something to focus on in order to not completely destroy my mental health; double

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... opportunity to develop skills in the field of electrical engineering and it ... guides you toward what you truly want to be. In Steve Jobs’ biography

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  exists to get people in a circle? I believe in the power of human ... 'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... you--look to the left and the right like you in black church--your life

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and ... expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a ... painted the same colors. Yuki wanted to know why I was getting rid of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make ... to blame all those external factors in one's life, which keep arising

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  India, and getting lunch with a friend in Tokyo along the way. I got to ... clear to me as of late is that I’m pretty used to getting what I want in ... from all across the university, and getting to fully immerse myself in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... have to sublet? In my group, two people wanted singles and the rest didn ... campus in spring, and we can't go back to our dorm [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... referencing (will.i.am getting excited about AI): According to MIT CSAIL

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... giving considerable thought to a major in management, with minors in civil ... the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... . There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly ... in on time, you get full credit. If you turn it in late, you get half

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even ... , but it also prepared me to get through this really really rough patch in ... good friend. As people were running around trying to squeeze in all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... ;I sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on MyMIT - what's going on?!" "My teacher said she sent my eval A in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013