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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local game, which crops to plant, and generally how to survive on the terrain ... to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  , applying to college - it's a lot to handle, and I remember very well how juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  that she wants to learn how to reduce their power so that they don't do ... learn how to pay bills. She plans to work on campus. She wonders about who ... 'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  overstate how badly I never want to make anyone feel like that. To be clear, I ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... just gonna talk about things i've been up to lately. fall is already ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• 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…

  

  to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... – – “Most likely to cause you to stub your toe on an unevenly paved sidewalk

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

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  personality and are relevant to the question. Think about if and how the ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  , while shedding some light on how he found his amazing UROP, why he came to ... which project I wanted to work on, who I want to work with, and how ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  been busy e-mailing MIT sophomores to get an insider's take how to adapt ... physiology and psychology. "I've always wanted to know how the mind works ... who never made it beyond third grade. “He taught himself how to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  , thoughtful, busy, creative. i would find a community while learning how to ... felt a flood of relief. this was how i was supposed to feel. i had ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  "]boat test,[/annotation] but this experience made me want to learn how to sail ... weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for week-long vacations with my friends ever since. but, from March 18 to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  equilibrium, there is a limit to how much I can handle and still be happy ... turning out to be really hectic. I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One ... down I feel like I'm gonna drown To GPA yet to come Still out there yet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  refreshing to just sit back and see what everyone brought to class, and how ... . For the past four months, I've been working with the MIT Design Lab to propose improvements to and new ideas for the metropolitan Paris subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  people how to make to sense of it. But that knowledge has to be published ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  to estimate how many students will want be on campus next semester ... wasn't a guess of how many students would want to return – but I thought ... strategize about. It was hard to think about how the players might estimate the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  poetry in Spanish, and learning how to code intelligent systems. It has ... to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in ... papers due, that hour number increases to maybe 5-7 hours a week. How

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021