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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... factor in my college decision-making. In hindsight, I’m grateful I wound up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  ’t attack me. In the fall, I would routinely get spammed by the Sport ... would just die on the inside, outside, in every dimension. I never hit ... sparring steps. I still am not sure how one would be able to use this in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... than I enjoyed my day job, so I did what any good MIT grad would do: I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  , hahaha." I do understand why that would make you mad, but in my experience ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... point would you reject me after acceptance because i am not doing very

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  grade, because I spent 100 hours on this project." or "I slept in the ... students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of ... , but just expressed in a slightly different. I thought the latter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... , everything looks nicer in lowercase. maybe i'll stop capitalizing now, bwahaha

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... late, I’ve been asking Dylan R. ‘24 to put me in “email purgatory

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  all these cool places, but I vowed that I would take some time during my ... simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  wanted an A in that class. I would have liked recognition of all the work I ... the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... to have an after-work event at which parents would construct gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  even still I was not sure it would be high enough in light of the ... interviewing at my first school, I was convinced that I would probably get in and ... little girl. In elementary school, I wanted to be an artist, the kind that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... not sure that I would want everything to occur the exact same way that ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It ... it. Last year, some friends and I celebrated July 4th by barbecuing at

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a ... , i don’t notice any pattern in when the thoughts come. when i wake up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of communities that i respect, like the group houses i lived in or the relevant

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021