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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  , respectively) did. In one of the riffs, Betsy Wolfe goes up to a C, which ... ) On the note of Dawn, her boyfriend (and later, husband), is actually ... Mine", which is THE song in Waitress. Before she started singing, one of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads ... ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  major or minor is not at all necessary to enjoy this class. I am to my ... allowed them to make a tremendous amount of noise from above on Tetazoo (3E ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On ... astrophysicists of our time (whether or not most of them read it is another question ... , is as close to the asymptote of world famousness as any theoretical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  that would show up on my high school transcript or worksheet that had to ... these decisions is what life is all about - regardless of whether or not ... nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program ... to stumble along the pages of a dictionary or encyclopedia, you derive ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  to squat and bench press. There are a lot of blogs on this here site ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ... talk about exhaustion, how classes drag on you, hours of scribbling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... , which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of ... , or grad school, or whatever it is that might allow you to enter "the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner of beef and noodles. Then we will go to church ... fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a ... or may not be aware, the major you write down on your MIT application

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  of things to do is completely checked off. Or someone reminds me to ... %. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On my defeated march back to my dorm room, I run into a good friend of ... replied to any of her texts in the past 12 hours or so. In terms of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  to become 100% about getting into college, which is wrong, wrong, wrong ... her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push ... bar of excellence, which, according to Jones, "rewards people who are

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or ... . Most of this advice is paraphrased from people that I consider to be ... , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... recited a part of it to us with a voice uniquely both delicate and strong ... out supplies, building bathrooms, and helping to treat people on this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  know that I have enough experience and skills to really be of use. On ... the photos. The robot is a Kuka robot arm (which is part of the ... difficult or boring. The aerial classes, though, were tons of fun, and on top

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it ... students are going to travel, regardless of break or not, and the only impact ... know it's unfair to judge MIT off this one semester, which is why I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... my LAST fall first day of lecture - this is my LAST time pretending to ... thing I have to say about thermo is that you don't understand it, or you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should ... a picnic on the beach. Cape Cod is one of Massachusetts' more popular ... a certain major, and it is their job to take a cadre of bright

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  harmonic oscillations of the pendulum is going to keep whacking the sides of ... % to 10%, 5%, 2% and when the x starts flashing on the corner of my ... better than the former. I’m not sure if this is a problem or not, but I no

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays ... of writing excessive amounts of fanfiction, so I was pretty excited to get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... the vaccine or not. One potential policy implication is that we ... . What they can do is impose a fine on *not* consuming the good, but still

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005