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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way ... sure it has been that way for the past two and a half years, but it is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... in for our 2 hour wait. [2 hours later] OMG guys! This is it! Batman ... As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... lot and are either binge-watching Netflix shows or sleeping for ungodly ... ="300"] mood[/caption] for MIT students, this period of time is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  that story for The Tech, or to be Rush chair for the second time in a row ... claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have ... wanted to through that in there to prove that MIT students do in fact date

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can ... !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  -15 paper/project assigned for the course, but I think it may prove to be an ... I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... MIThon, which is an animation hackathon (in true MIT spirit) to make a 30 second ... , with an expert in the relevant field of art in attendance. The mission

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  acceptable reasons. Why yes, I am indeed an adult! Thank you for asking! My ... important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  skating rink. Students got to ice skate for free in their creative Halloween ... from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... “disruption in sleep patterns associated with setting clocks either forward or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  guys! Sam Lord (the new regional chair for Hartford EC's) and I had an ... Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise ... topics around in my head and wait for inspiration. That's the thing about ... applications like an assembly line worker you may not have time to just wait for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  of a breakthrough with a vaccine for the virus in the offing, it feels ... [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  soon come to an end for the Frosh. Whispers ripple through the crowds of ... . Life in college is not how she imagined it. The Frosh had many dreams for ... production than Hollywood, for sure. A fortnight ago, the Frosh went to an MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  get something in before an application deadline (did that last week for ... year, when my computer was stolen on an overnight train in Eastern Europe ... ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  school and was in a banana costume for his campaign for class vice ... varying degrees of involvement in extracurricular activities. There was an ... during CPW! All in all, CPW was an amazing experience. I learned about the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  My last rendezvous with an ambulance occurred in the suffocating heat ... still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago ... 't driven in six months, and even when I drove, it was nothing so large as an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  memo too. Now, if you're going to a biannual event involving an ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in ... some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... , particularly when considering what is asked for on the application, in addition ... technical issues, like an unfortunately timed power or internet outage that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  , ask around for the RCC, an upperclassman who deals with such requests ... for a final this weekend, and thankfully the sun came out again after a ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006