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• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... about something relatively trivial in the scope of things. I was really ... for Girls in various combinations, I totally bombed the last AMC I ever

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... , her album E•MO•TION came out in middle school. I remember coming across ... was right, because i am not in fact the biggest fans of those subjects

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... changed about the situation i was living in, i felt my bedroom grow a little ... , exciting!) the rhythm of life in simmons is, like i said, much like my life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... action decisions in mid-March. In my experience, I don't find extra formal ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person ... contributed to MIT in so many ways that I wouldn't know where to begin. So, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  that I'd imagine different people are interested in. In the end, I decided that I'm just going to write about everything I'm interested in ... course, puzzlehunts aren't just about the puzzles. In my previous post I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... taking a gap year; so i would be around the area, you know, i’d be seeing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  would you be in Tucson? Who would you be in art school? I didn’t have the ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as ... and terrifying. I warned the back half of the line that the wait would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember ... . I'm warning you now. With this in mind (the world, not parenthetical digressions), I spent a year abroad as an exchange student in Taiwan the year

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in ... . It started with butterflies and dragonflies, but eventually I fell in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your ... circuit theory and printed circuit boards in general. I've discovered that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  ). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design ... (MAS.S65). In the classs, grad students would be exposed to various ... aren't the newest thing around but I've never seen one in person before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... an added bonus, I found out that the event would be put on by the ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  ,[/annotation] indeed............. I decided to go to Firefly back in May. the tickets ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in ... would still have enough space in our car on the way down. we planned to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here ... almost nobody knows that. I talk about whatever I think would captivate the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  would otherwise be too tedious/painful to do in 2D. I’ve been self ... bunch of pieces (which would be super tedious to do by hand in 2D), I ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... awesome things these people would be doing in 10 years. That definitely ... The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013