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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I ... succeed in the things you want to do, you must learn the art of eating shit ... what exactly I want to aim for in the near future. Basically, in the face

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... funds for it. It was also super refreshing to be in these games classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  laps in one day or 143 laps in two consecutive days to qualify for the ... charging period in the morning from 7 am to 9 am, then you are allowed to ... that the teams must get to by a certain time. However, other than that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... try. "Where's dad?" "He went in to work this morning. I haven't been ... to get something. When I turned around to return to the building, I saw

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some ... blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a ... losing to Alabama, Tebow played the best game of his life in the Sugar Bowl

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3 ... who aren't slackers, you can visit this page to get a good idea of what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... everything... - and then it gets baked in the oven! (Mine's the one in the ... , installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  high school days--not because I wanted to be in high school again, but ... school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas ... for you to drink. There are men in top hats playing carols on trombones

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more ... posting. i just needed to get these thoughts in writing. maybe i'll actually ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  explain and sort of requires knowledge of the entire in-game universe to ... "]deluxe version[/annotation] of the game in June, and was expecting it to physically be shipped to me in time for me to play. But since coronavirus has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... them looked something like this. In the week or so leading up to the ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... group, I made new friends. In mid-November, I finally managed to finish my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty reluctant to initiate the last one since i was SO comfortably slumped in my ... talk to in quarantine, it is nice to at least feel like i'm connecting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012