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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  straight allies who have difficulty finding a place that is in line with ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... LGBTQ students who have a lot of difficulty finding a place that is both

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who ... , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... Engineering, earning his degree in just three and a half years. After MIT, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the ... put in a plug for two other events this weekend. First, MIT's South

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  ready to live in paradise for a while. As important CPW is for prefrosh ... in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... exterior. Ok that's a tough one. Let's see if we can zoom in a bit: How

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  established at the Institute in 29 years. MIT is the first university in the ... Today's tie: blue/gray/slate-colored. I worked with Amy and a student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... mediocrity if you go a different path that is riddled with setbacks and ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  two years, which is doubly as nice for me because my family lives in ... -ranked team put us in a better position for NCAA qualification. I think that ... together in a way that makes me smile a lot on the inside and the outside

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although ... I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  lol"]degree[/annotation]requirements. The first is a required core ... capstone class. It's a[annotation note="Communication Intensive class in the ... good things about it from upperclassman.   The other class is a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... to work with other people. Choosing a dorm that fits you is also ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy ... , reorganized my room. After attending a synthfest in the Media Lab a while ago ... might have guessed, I'm in that chair pretty often! I've been spending a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in ... life when you do.** All this is of course a lot easier said than done ... done so horribly, so atrociously on any exam in my life. I got a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to ... be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  would need to do it in a satisfying way.. ..which is okay! Because ... this moment about what my aspiration is in life, I would tell you ... behavior and performance of firms in markets, with a particular focus on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  , in a way meet your classmates. Everyone that is accepted early is on ... kids, where does the illuminati stay on campus, can someone major in a ... to be in this massive chat, and you get a pretty accurate view of what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  publishable research in high school was a thing) actually is through course 1 in ... working with. My research is concerned in a few different things. For ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  atom bomb? Well Los Alamos is in the certified middle of nowhere, which ... . Being in the middle of nowhere also means there is relatively little to do besides detonate huge bombs in the desert. What they do have though, is an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... it out. Basically, it is a super-easy way to synchronize files across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my ... , saying “hi, my name is…” more times than I ever have at any point in my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011