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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  minutes and get more sleep? Even better. Getting Out of the MIT Bubble On a ... hard to feel like you’re making any progress at MIT. A lot of progress is ... that are hard to be proud of when they look like an almost-average on a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  opinions on the merits and flaws of the book. For instance, to his taste, my ... finding the station in the nick of time. I was supposed to be featured on a ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do ... . Happening all week, starting on Thursday, which is when I'll be answering ... conference [annotation note="in which the class of 2020 got on a boat and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  you to another EC who is available. Some of you may live in areas where ... interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so ... on, which was to only bring back seniors and have nearly everything ... 't wait to try working on some of them on the weekends and nights when I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To ... express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you ... I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... extent you're looking to explore on your own.A team of admissions staff and ... guests.While you'll have lots of opportunities on Thursday and Friday to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  things to failure, which is always a lot of fun. The lab reports are a lot ... . Transportation planning is a mix of civil engineering and urban planning, much to ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus ... tournament! It is better to register now and then cancel (please try to cancel ... part, this is based on financial need. Ash wrote, "Is there anyway to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  you like it or not. So I guess my piece of advice to you is not to make ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and subway station. Moral of the story: Life is different when you go to

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... then tended to be on well-defined routes. To my grandparents in Utah or Arizona, depending on the season, or to regattas in the mid-West. My 1

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  , timing, so on and so forth. Then, on the day of, we got up at 7 AM to make ... each day is the same mess of work that needs to get done. As I wrote at ... greater and sharper. In Chinese, “to grow up” is translated as 长大, or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  spent on/donated to content creators and the hours watched. Or how 38% of ... class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of ... of parasocial relationships on a person and their identity, or when a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  capital of whichever Dakota or Carolina you find to be more mneumonically ... weekend at pika, after waking up on Thanksgiving day to a house full of ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  is a bit better -- just dealing with a lot of long waiting times ... on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up ... of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  awful lot of clean socks they forgot to pick up. This is Burton ... other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out with friends, watch TV or movies, or play on any of the game consoles the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  , or the buzzing returns to my brain. Even if it is in the middle of the ... modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all ... what it must feel like to work in those towers on days like today; is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  that would fit in the span of 10 or so days is a difficult task ... calls over which we ironed out the details of the trip. Kano wanted to go ... able to go on a trip like this for my entire life. It always felt out of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is a pen with which mass writes on the pages of spacetime. science ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010