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• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  and Harvard, and holds a meetup for alumni and staff from their programs ... receiving a bid offer from a fraternity that I went to many events for, a ... , Toy Product Design, where teams of 4-5 design a toy from scratch. I was

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  rejected from a lot of jobs, so I'm going to subtract 30% from that total ... rejected from a lot of software internships"]applied to a lot of software ... this. I think that I've commandeered a boat from

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  primarily uses its fake Yoric-from-Hamlet skull as a cookie bowl. I asked each ... stand out as a very different personality from all the other suit ... Carpenter Paul Romer '12 take a break from construction to survey their set

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  -professional" school. My best friend from high school is named Sarah. Her mom is a bank ... inner city. I don't claim to be from a "bad neighborhood," but I do think ... My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  computer lab with a mission she refused to back down from. “It isn’t fair ... If you are unfamiliar with the FIRST Robotics program: FIRST is a ... “kickoff day,” where a brand-new challenge is revealed and teams are given a

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from ... paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I’m on a plane flight home. Dire Straits’ "On Every Street" hums through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  our water samples from yesterday. During dinner, we sat with a group of ... have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... were so grimy that Amritaa '10 wiped her face with a cotton swab and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  issue for these laptops. Dale had brought a solar panel from the United ... encounter, in which we met a bunch of ER nurses who are actually from about ... ’Assainissement, which is the national Haitian drinking water association - they organize a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  incredible empathy and willingness to help. Coming from a high school that ... MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... 'd requested and discarded essays, I may have killed a tree. I'll plant one when

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had ... 11-5 Zoom session with a brief thirty minute break from 3:30-4. 6.009 I ... gained from the Bible, taking a story and then producing some great worldly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any better. I got some good advice from a friend and they helped me understand ... . There is such a thing as a bad essay. In my case, my bad essays came from

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  Media Studies or Course 17 - Political Science. In a year, I went from ... DONE. Freshman year ended. The brain has been freed from psets and required readings, and I am enjoying a breezy carefree summer. I have sadly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  probably deduce from the above subheading, I fell down a bunch of steps the ... 't judge me. I've been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome for a few ... It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  seem a bit high, but that doesn't stop frat boys from trekking over to ... Zelda. You know, from the Nintendo games. Bryan just did an entry on things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  've learned a lot, especially from thinking about analogies that make these ... I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that ... will probably do a few later posts about the details of things like

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015