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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  's impossible to see everyone at ISEF, especially only in a single day, but I got ... their project in simple terms for the intelligent layperson, and to help ... at MIT, so it was a nice way to get the gang back together after CPW

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  , which guaranteed that I would play someone who was unable to score in ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin ... judging gets tough. In the first game of the round of 64, I knew that my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other ... without looking at the keyboard. this is a wonderful state to be in because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  serious flaws. Until we are confident in the test's ability to evaluate one ... round get saved in our folders and considered again, along with new RA ... new material comes in, the folder is returned to the primary reader to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... one of my trips back to see friends in the Boston area. It was one of ... . I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  'm just not in any condition to compose a proper blog entry today. And ... Hello out there in TV Land. I'm Sam Maurer. You might remember me ... Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  grades may take longer to process in some school systems this may take ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  every time somebody rings the intercom to get in the main entrance. The ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange ... midway to check out Alicia '06 performing in the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to ... , Carolina, and my adventure getting to Death and the Powers. (Created with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... frowned upon to willingly do work outside of work? i get why it's bad if you ... sees me replying to a message after hours, she tells me to get off slack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005