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• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have gained a reputation as “fringe.” Initial reports of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  of our applicants is evidence of having taken initiative, showing an ... take advantage of their less constrained educational environment to take ... addition to evaluation of the homeschooling portfolio, are very helpful. Some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  attempt at blogging—funnily enough, i only started this writing to apply to ... generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... -ish blog last week. i thought it'd be interesting to post this now—nearly one

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  ’t allowed to take those.” Our reactions began with initial denial and ... Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  contribute to the initiative. [embed ... initiative and offered a server to host everything, as well as some individuals ... In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  vending machine, fails, and then gives it to the team as a memento. As our ... , after the MMO theme was selected. The initial goal was to get all answers ... "Initial Idea". Once it's ready enough, the author changes the status to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  of color feel laden with the responsibility to drive DEI initiatives in ... , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... fellow MIT students this year, asking how to make better, more meaningful

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  roaring and happily shocked students never fails to make me smile. The 3 ... students will often proceed to ISEF-affiliated regional fairs, and then state ... to attend ISEF as finalists and present their work to expert judges to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  -and-drop Windows tool. f) Want to put a period after your middle initial in the MIT ... accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... perspective on how this initiative developed and the people who helped make it ... encourage you to watch as many as you can because they show what MIT students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  initiative and courage to get help, and appreciate it. In an e-mail I received ... Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  the potential to make us very well off! Even if you fail, you’ll have ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007