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• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... Memorial Drive?" "Oh, no. I just moved. I live in 3 Ames Street now." "380

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out ... chillin' in my mouth. I got back to my room and decided to spend some time ... certain 80s music video. Dan Sauza '11 and I both realized that it would

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  hated the first day. I'd feel this slight sorrow of knowing that I would ... Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It's 9:05 am. The ... episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the room isn't a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... . My suitcase is unpacked-in fact I haven't even brought it down from the ... entrance to Bush Intercontinental, my mom and I settle down in the terminal

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  records in the dead ball era. Same for songs. I swear I remember the lyrics ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... , I remember being average was "BAD" in high school because you needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... since I have penchant for the color red anyway (maybe gold would have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  if I did I would definitely wear them), and your iPod's on your ... 'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  watch them fizz, which I thought would go down in history as The Most ... . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... athletics, gym classes, and other non-academic activities. I was reading in ... . 4. Size. I grew up in a town of about 2,000 people and the idea of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy ... the fact that I hadn't gotten in and only checked my account to confirm ... about you guys a lot" is a gross understatement. I'm sure in the coming

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in ... projects and work that would be good for myself and good for the world. i don ... over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... his homework when he should’ve in high school, I wasn’t. I was a goof, I only worked hard in inconsistent spurts. I didn’t take notes, I never

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... ocean (or just water in general) and I have had an interesting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... 's a quiz on Wednesday that I really would like to do well on something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... least I was in good company. The next morning, I felt oddly sympathetic ... A. I think this calls for additional punctuation marks!!! In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009