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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... . And trying to do things in pursuit of "meaning" is probably bound to get ... encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... the few that actually gets to go to school here. I remember that on one

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... decided I wanted to double major in 20 and 5, chemistry. Or maybe even ... in the back of my mind: what about Course 6? To give some clarity on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  and launched our website and our annual CTF puzzles and managed to get ... battling wordpress to get this out so it's a little over for me"]I’m crunched ... -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  the class and ultimately lose interest and motivation to do well in it ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  seem absurd at first glance and obvious in hindsight, so you get used to ... give both balls to my friend, one in each hand, leave the room, and give them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back ... in the front row where we were treated to some of the best live jazz I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  questions 4 u about MIT but had to get in gear and out the door. btw I am so ... you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the ... his pictures are better. In the end, I learned enough to receive a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  Lima students, to a website that promotes local artisans and their ... some time to be disappointed in ourselves because we’re MIT students, and ... of the Kremlin, trying not to fit in with the Russians Obligatory team

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  enough to remember. I'm old enough to remember sprinting home in fear ... So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  -related parenting advice you'd give to your own parents if you could go back in time? [Edit: in other words, I want my kids to be as close as possible as they ... decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... , to participate in the Discover Aerospace FPOP! In my overly simplified ... ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  .031, elements of software construction, dubbed as how not to get fired in industry ... effort in getting me to commit. i knew that whichever one i picked, i would ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  another quality stapler in the office for me to use, so all is well in the ... 't know the answer, but perhaps I can persuade Ben to answer it in the ... required only for students in U.S. school systems, do other students need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  school"]was willing to bet my right kidney[/annotation] I would not get in ... we're proud of you for getting to this point in a tough year. And with ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  cause poverty to continue in developing countries. In January (MIT ... need in order to build a project, and you can shop around if there’s a ... When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  friends and family loved  getting to see what I was up to, so I just ... conversation and allowed us to meet someone!  Kyle: I’ve been recognized in ... excited to be in vlogs. It was just really cute. Shawn: I went playing golf

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear Report: I know that ... you to work on your MIT application in the meantime. Working on the MIT ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  [/caption] Come 2 PM or so, we gathered in a room to get our briefing for the parade ... solve in order to get the metameta for that island, or something like that ... in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020