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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I ... . ***: I would not recommend supergluing objects to your fingers

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not ... it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  read/time spent ratio as an 18 year old, I would read short novellas and ... ![/caption] Somewhere, deep inside me, I also had the desire to improve massively in art ... be an exercise in visual art and composition. But for me, it would also

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  year MIT students. 3) I've been thinking for awhile that it would be ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to post about this week. That will change next week when I post pictures

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  research on what the VR trends would be in 2017 and found out that a lot VR ... January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  would prevent me from going broke, but what? I was already so busy, how would I have time to go out, find jobs, apply, and work them? Well, the ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of ... consumed my entire reality. I’ll probably lament this detachment in the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  answer blog that I mentioned. People would come in and they would ask ... ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  in past years I would take on lots of scheduled tasks even over IAP and ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... the anxieties I mentioned in my last few posts, I think I've made (some

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  a week for various things i was involved in, and a bike would've saved ... worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... it. if i already know what i want, and believe in it hard enough, is ... people would think. i worry too much about whether my decision to choose X

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  Boston before (I was in a suburb of Denver and would frequently longboard ... already, I met people from so many more different backgrounds than I would ... universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... decision we make. Some people would strike a slightly different balance in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... to meet our target class size. With that figure in mind, I was ... that you will do wonderful things in the world, wherever you end up. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who ... intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  said I would. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't let myself reach the point ... earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  's conjecture sums up the year nicely, as of right now. I came in, as countless ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... . With this one notwithstanding, I've covered 9 categories over 11 posts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011