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• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  on from a breakup: "I don't love you, I don't need you / I don't ever ... One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to Harvard Med School, after attaining 1590 SAT, 44 MCAT, and a 4.0 GPA* at ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  ! But you’re allowed to retake a PE class and I’d definitely benefit from ... the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... colder and hungrier) and a whole host of possibilities are available that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  were being developed in the Boston/Cambridge area. There’s a cameo from ... My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for me, and I feel that, until last weekend, I didn’t really have a day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  board left from a previous lecture. Since we're all living together ... on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke ... repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially ...  and mercury - and a journal entry from a few weeks ago - these people make me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  put off finishing all the half-baked blog posts from this month. The ... working on a bunch of cool video projects while more relaxing things like ... Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  around on their computers coding all day. People here come from a range of ... So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  fleeting fifth-grade dreams of being a mechanical engineer. When I was being ... for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my thing. So I took a moment, thought, and told him the first of my pursuits

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... A couple of days ago, Snively wrote, "I have a theory that bloggers from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front ... . QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  less than a half-hour from the state line, it has well over a dozen ... Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  words from back then convey what he means to me best.   “As a ... A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  dancers from a diverse range of teams that represent styles like hip ... is a super high-energy folk dance that originates from the Indian state ... dance, from traditional Asian dance to K-Pop; members perform at a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends ... building a database of alumni, so last day and night I spent a lot of time ... -Shyduroff, Douglas Ling, and Peter Mui. They envisioned a cross-campus event that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major... ...and one month later, I learned that a man named Guido van Rossum

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... pieces. The first, "Appeel," was a large wall covered in peelable orange

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... matters: playing football, heaving a shot put, framing a house, lifting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009