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• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... a year ago might've talked to different people in the companies he was ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Parents will label these as

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... our community, as a whole, wishes to achieve. I think in many ways, we ... ’d have to describe it in a more roundabout way, or simply not at all. The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before promptly going back to sleep. I had never met Regina Spektor, been on a road

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... to be a sounding board and copilot in those years. Matt and I also

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... constantly diving into snow and then switching to a hot tub. it hurts but in ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  birth to a son blah refrigerator blah blah i think i will have to write in the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... generated three-line poems with a couple words in each line I’d be bound to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  from high school. Trying to find a parking spot in Spain. Ice skating ... to MIT. I sent them a letter telling them about what I had done in the ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS ... and Rahul and Nathan and Erhardt in Civic to launch a crowdfunding ... given a spot on the team. In December, I moved to Cambridge, and I started

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  find the second sentence to be a lot more "down-to-earth." The simple ... a lot in my peers back in the day when we were all applying to college ... something to think about (doesn't have to be in the form of a direct question

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Board Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... 'm on my way to hang out with a friend in the Rainbow Lounge, but first I ... haven't seen in a couple weeks, so I walk over to say hello. And, oops, of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had ... back to my room in Next House, ate a snack, and drank some tea. Since I ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018