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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  anywhere. this last point is important, and i could talk about it for a long ... post can guide your own thoughts, the beginnings of a framework for you ... he is as a person (see NPR, TIME, and his own website, for starters

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie ... telling ghost stories with only a conflagration of apple cider for light ... was frequently mistaken for a senior as a freshman, and as a freshman

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  -mail?" Not yet. We are discussing this as a possibility for the future, but it ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... 'd say a high GPA in challenging courses is much more important than

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  thrown a party for over 50 years and that's important to us and our culture ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... to a global pandemic, our dorm is being renovated for two years, and we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  guys usually shoot for a 1:1 gender ratio. Do you have any stats on this ... application statistics. Also, I wouldn't say that we "usually shoot for a 1:1 ... , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... means for autobiographer and biographer to develop a personal voice; and ... for my concentration. Not a whole lot of freedom. Let this be a lesson

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  to a party for not terribly long, then went home and fell asleep by 11 ... survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... — a green alternative material for an established company that was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  a broader range of possibilities for post-secondary education for ... Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a ... communities.  While the initiative is new, the concern for these students is not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  every email, meaning that I now have a compilation of all these important ... someone for, "thanks" is a good option. Otherwise, "best" is pretty good and ... . "Feelsbox" is a local word for an open-ended question placed at the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  train compartment (trust me, our packing of this compartment was a model ... an advertisement for a World-Cup-sponsoring phone company who has ... this up into two entries. Twenty pictures is a little two much even for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until ... . When it came time to choose a school, I felt like it was easy for me to ... major. Students can craft a specific focus for themselves by taking

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  and I decided to repay Ben for all his awesomeness by throwing a mini ... (check for yourself here); so instead of taking a lunch break, I just ... story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  highlight here is two amazing comics made for my writing class last semester. 21W.021, also known as "MIT 150:Inside, Live",  is a CI-HW (Writing ... to the history, growth, and, most importantly, the culture of MIT. The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  good for getting things done and this makes me sound like a Very Old ... , although I have studied for a week to be able to answer the questions. I flip ... wake up. It's a bit sad, but maybe I will carry this for life. I also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a ... . The release of the WikiWatcher suite near pranking season makes for a ... . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... record for a 9 day adventure of 23.7minutes. I scurried along to submit ... on the campus of Carnegie Mellon for a leadership conference. As the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  pronto) and I found a video of me at the beginning of last year that I never blogged. For some brilliant reason I decided that the gallon challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  the summer, a fellow Senior Haus resident and '11 who is out of town for ... themselves. Little do my campers suspect that they may actually be in for a ... in the Center for Ultracold Atoms (a part of MIT's RLE). The CUA is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008