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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  Wow; it’s already 2010. Anyways, Monday 1/4/10 marks the beginning ... Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which …MIT students do whatever they find worthwhile – whether it’d be a mini

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Engineering and Computer Science). Someone took this information, typed it onto a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and ... -friction activities. I think Dave Barry says it best here: Skiing is an exciting winter sport, but it is not for everybody. For example, it is not for sane people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  . DID YOU KNOW? It was originally planned to inscribe the names of several ... he was the only composer for whom it was agreed that popularity would never fade. Sunday: After a long, long, long desk shift, I was greeted my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... void. But before I get into any juicy details, I think it would be good ... don't know who I am, and I don't know who you are, but we'll make it

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  negotiate with effectively. As a GEL 2, it was great to see how much the GELs ... ; Urgency to Deliver, Initiative, and Decision Making   It’s safe to ... didn’t have enough Legos to make satellites on its own. Some teams had a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  of it involves asking the right questions. Maybe "How can I get into ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a ... you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open, the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , checking my schedule, clearing off my desk, until—oh god it’s so late how did ... enough. I put on music, and I book it out the door and down that long ... make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  exhilarating. And because no amount of words can do justice to just how great it ... closed and many people off campus, the usual hustle and bustle is gone. It ... my own, there's this physical distance that's made it a little bit

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  It's been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like ... yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how ... , last year I was quickly brushed off by recruiters. Maybe it was my lack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with the Institute. But it's just ... worth it if you spent the years unhappily toiling through a course of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  these in." "But I'm not wearing them. Look, it's all grass in there, how ... belongs to his wife but I'm pretty sure it's his, judging by how fervently ... surprise was that a lot of people don't realize just how long this song is

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  how it is humanly possible to skip meals; I am hungry, hear me roar), I ... ’m qualified to use that phrase to its fullest extent, especially considering how ... It was 2AM. After a heart-warming and tummy-filling Thanksgiving

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  my life. I think now, in college, it recently struck me how differently ... myself the embarrassment, I won't be posting that here, but it reminded me ... few minutes :) 1.) Take Online Quizzes My friends have long ridiculed

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  across time, and how historical relevance can be so fleeting. It was the ... would revolve around science and engineering. I’ve definitely found it ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  hosts taught me how to say “I will never love again”; he says it’s common ... description: “A one week long project held in Xiamen, Fujian, where a team of ... about it from a random e-mail (probably sent to all of the dorm mailing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014