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• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... listening to someone read a slideshow in the background. It turns cramming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  -mail from Petey, and I excitedly turned to my friend in DPD saying "Oh my God ... 'm slowly starting to learn how to quiet the small voice in my head that says ... 'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... mathematical models and quantitative data, and i'm looking forward to getting ... -pitch quadcopters flipping upside-down (developed in the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the ... , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... . Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... get my picture taken to be even more authentic. My mother is not so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into the desert to pick up a rock formation, the sand falling in streams over

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  person I met in my freshman year to the person that sits with me now ... !" I excitedly exclaimed to no one in particular. "They don't make gay ... believe them to be in my head and now I find it difficult to resolve the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I ... ).... and I've decided to be ME (get the pun?)!! Why you might ask? Well... it ... our "experiment" to calculate the size of the ping pong ball "nuclei" in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over ... For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  . While you may get more authentic Chinese food in Chinatown Teriyaki House ... , while I frequent the latter, getting to the former is more of a luxury ... fries and you flag down a waitress to get your anticipatory doggie bag

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  waterballoons and spirited pre-frosh as West campus rides to victory in the Water ... at any time and solve a few puzzles, or stay as long as it takes to get ... or walnut? What will you get in your mystery cupcake? 7:00 PM - 9

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play ... , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... there was in the responsive people gave, even if they didn't intend to do ... the fact that it was going to get erased eventually. Really shows how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... in my freshman seminar that I wanted to build a steel table. It took ... (referenced to the floor). Woot! Anyway, here it is; the picture was taken in a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call your school to ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... right now. I have been in committed relationships back to back since I ... character flaw I needed to push through, or if this just meant I wasn't in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023