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• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  the way that MIT changed my brain. And I would turn that test in blank ... fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road ... , I’ve been exploring some of the nature in the Boston area. I went down

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the ... explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... first name is Edward. When I got to MIT, Edmund and I thought it would be

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... (mechanical engineering with a particular focus; I would have chosen biomedicine ... thought I would give you a brief insight into some of the questions that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first(I ... our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• 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 / 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 / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there ... biking and cave hiking, I found myself sitting in a Gondola on my way back ... forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019