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• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  the year when CPT is allowed to take effect at MIT. Because of this and ... the class structure, but it also made me want to do something more hands-on ... the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... to get a series of them yesterday. i listened to them on my walk to ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  before, the feeling of overwhelming stress is no longer constant or mind ... could really be. Of course, "I'm not sure" is a valid thing to feel. Life ... . Each time something got a little better, another sector of my life would

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Musical Theatre Guild was putting on "Urinetown", which I had never heard of ... . You work together to put on a production. One person's gaffe is everyone ... 't sing at all) but you don't have to be the best of the best, or have lots

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit's "grind culture" or "questionable mental health". mit is hard. some people say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and ... 'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be ... success. You can go to a community college and still end up at the top of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  of featured authors, I begin to repeat their words or divide my ... Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  ,"[/annotation] which is a direct rip-off of my pal Valerie's recent Zine projects. The ... to the best of your ability," where X=bike or car or Shrek or Tim ... 've had to come up with. [annotation note="is this too ominous? or the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  very, very little money for a family). Adding on to this is the fact ... about; this is the population who are on the cutting board of health care reform. On July first of this year, the State of California caved in to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  glassblowing alongside my Intro to Python class. It is one of my biggest regrets ... every sister date I went on and it was really easy to talk to all of them ... to say that this is by no means a criticism of anyone who participates

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow-covered sidewalks. I had yet to master the tunnels and navigate through them on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  to the singer, which is somehow impossible despite your best efforts and years of musical training; the challenge of (or failure to) playing ... enjoyment of looking through the things on the shelves, some of which you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new portlets in the next month or two based on requests that you've made for

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  . on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on ... 's going to tell you what times to work or stop working. why is it so ... hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  . =) Personally though, I'm just going to skip right along to.... 7.012, which is ... though, is 3.091, or, as some like to call it, "3.09-fun." Clever, isn't it ... of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or ... up on top of each other like the laundry I forgot to fold on Sunday ... -price college night, and we took their website's claim of "All you have to do is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  is rumored to contain all of mankind's knowledge to date 6) Stu's water ... if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... of Recruitment Green Circles - Objects: 1) Matt's paper bag, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  parents moved to Baltimore when I was two, which is where I grew up. But now ... drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005