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• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... is crazy. being honest with yourself, too. i’d say i’m a very self ... whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  campus as a freshman. While reading these blogs is a great alternative, it ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours ... SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  fields with MIT; our co-identification with STEM is a core strength of the institutional brand and our role in the popular imaginary. But, as a graduate of ... transforming our economy and society. Ethnography gives the people a voice in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... MIT student. Truth is, I’m still a theater geek/runner/newspaper junkie ... you told me I’d be a varsity athlete in college. Now, I run the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have ... to be viewed as a successful scholar, you first must prove you can

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... . Reuse is a mailing list for giving things away. People email out ... have also seen some much stranger things in there.) There are a few

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a ... . Now is this one over-achieving blog post or whaht?! (Not quite back in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  abusive relationship with her awful husband Earl, she is stuck in a cycle of ... . Here is a snippet:. Jenna, her doctor, and the nurse are in the office ... (like to get into a school or to get that job offer or, in our case, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... ” award – Walking around is, in my opinion, the most enjoyable method of transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... ) There is a Maker Portfolio option? Really? A1) YES! Check out the ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... sophomore year, she developed a strong interest in international development ... gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few ... day. Opening, identifying, processing, and filing these documents is straightforward enough, but it takes a lot of time! It is completely normal for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  field. But in a lot of cases, that sort of attitude is self-fulfilling; a ... account, typed a few lines in Python, hit F-5 to run, and...there it is ... projects too--the Design/Build/Fly team is working towards competition day in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  build up and prove the things we use in calculus and a lot of math in ... that for every point in the set, there is a ball around that point that ... so (as close as you want), then c is in A. So [a, b] is such a set but

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  fundamentally changed in some way as a person. The only way this can happen is by ... just to show me what it is. Sometimes, this happens in a slightly formal ... across Boston or ten time zones across the world, fitting in is a task. It

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... to the class, and a guy at pika read aloud in its entirety to an eager

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech ... MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via ... but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  ) does things like writing policy documents, which I think is more fun. :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  -listening hotline, for the score. Nightline's greatest service is in peer counseling ... So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great ... tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005