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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... rejected from a lot of jobs, so I'm going to subtract 30% from that total ... wound up doing all the building and he didn't want to build a loft, lol

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half-baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every ... phone was at 3% battery. The man behind the counter moved to cut me a

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

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE ... thing to buy was the mystery bag. The mystery bag was a veritable wealth ... purchasing it. The mystery bag was a door to another world. I later came to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  another dream about the portabella mushroom burgers last night. I made a ... a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very ... not get to draw Beth R.F. '18 and Crystal W. '18 properly. Here they are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  If you’re a QuestBridge Finalist that didn’t rank MIT, you are welcome to apply. Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a QuestBridge Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Regular Action
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  wanted to become a programmer, but we had too many of those already, so to ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line. I learned to use a tap by accidentally snapping off the tap while it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... . Yeesh. That night, I tried to work on a paper but couldn't. I also didn ... of a relationship so I tried to break up with my boyfriend. Perhaps

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... to even out the rim; round the lip over with a soft sponge; and glide ... ’s controlled with a foot pedal whose angle corresponds directly to the velocity

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . Instead, someone turned to me and said, “did you know, you have a lovely ... heritage and apparently having a face that looks kind of funny, to the extent ... relentlessness, a relentlessness to give into that same indifference, an inability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In ... exchange. I had less than a week to decide. Indeed, I was incredibly excited

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  drawn to that organization because they have a child with Down Syndrome ... 's a gigantic statue of Jesus. After we returned to ground level and ate ... , we paused to examine a map -- and suddenly, a local starting yelling to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... was unable to do a halfway decent cartwheel under normal conditions and ... So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... – amounting to ~10 hrs/wk of teaching.   Wait, are you a physics ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... . After a short walk to McCormick, we reached her room and I finally put all

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task ... perspective on what a robotics career has practically meant to me, but don’t be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to ... disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but ... miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at ... get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024