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• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of ... getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... want to complete. Some of them are easy, and others are a little harder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a ... result. For that, I have to wait until tonight, where she'll be facing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day-to ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to ... to learn more about MIT. As a former college tour guide myself, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a ... to begin, we wiggled our way through the crowd and found a spot where ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• 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
• 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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