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• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... 't need to be there to guess how it made me feel to see so many holes ... that's how I want to remember the class. So I threw away the targets I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  . "We're not far enough to be over the Rockies." He then explained that ... current UROP supervisor, who all gave me suggestions for how to make the ... England, and he shared his thoughts on how to pursue joint research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... software. Or getting pointers on how to commercialize research from someone ... how these motivated women were each able to find different paths to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  order next week to legally change my name to Jerome. Other than that, not ... ends the 28th at midnight PST. So if you've been waiting to vote, or you've been waiting to tell your friends, family, or family pets to vote, do it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  how we're going to cultivate community for incoming freshmen while we ... about how we're going to take action to stop using harmful words like ... ... It's refreshing to see how much people care about building and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  audience of MIT admitted students was that they were not just here to solve ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  . It’s not every day that I get to spend a solid hour just talking about ... restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... cross country team dinners; it’s where MIT students say they’d like to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  some people try not to think about the inevitability of death. I put my ... 've ever proposed or worked on. I didn't want to think about how my entire ... frustrated with not belonging anywhere. Rachel Dolezal tried to pass for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  watching a quality piece of cinema: Troll 2, not to be mistaken for the ... just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful ... ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... disposition's a little too chill for that now. We'll see how aforementioned ... might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  true love is History. AP US History was not enough to quench my ... fun this semester and a one-shot-deal, but it just goes to show how ... too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  forms filled out (take note, do not try to fill out all of the forms on ... a group picture or two to remember just how awesome this all was ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  've finally narrowed down my thoughts. I'm not going to lie. I was a little ... be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  not the most well-known cellists ever. Ask anyone to name a cellist and ... 't. (Fun fact: I never learned how to whistle before coming to MIT ... final jam session. Q: How can one overcome the barrier to entry for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  raised enough money to bring not only himself and both Drs. Essigmann [Prof ... her own label since 2000, she decided to teach these young mothers how ... -Johnson's ultimate goal, however, is not solely to enlarge Emerge Global, but to extend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  deadline for interviewers to submit their report has not yet arrived ... stuff? (Or, "OMG I sent my stuff before the deadline and it's not showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable ... required were completely different. You could not simply scale up my abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022