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• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  leaving to “go sign checks or something” (he makes us laugh at 9am, which is ... really like to think that it’s better to Engage than it is to Criticise ... important changes in policy. This week, his job is to prepare a delegation of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got ... Sidney Street, the location of the ubiquitous Star Market and the Hotel ... .) It's important to keep in mind the loud harmony of Tim's pipe as

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  better. I guess it's not that way everywhere, which I think is really sort ... Tech about a year ago: "MIT is the kind of place you love to hate, but ... to your field -- spending time on an extracurricular sort of means you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  heart grow fonder. Or maybe this is part of the natural cycle of losing ... of people for the better. I used to feel uncomfortable with the fact ... energy to put into bettering myself, or if I actually sat down and thought

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... or bodies of the emails with my essays attached, which were mostly sent ... a huge huge issue for me later on, which is another story altogether

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is ... spots and 70% of the pool has great numbers, your pool is going to have ... /student shouldn't be measured by whether or not he/she goes to HYPSM." I could go on

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define ... Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... pro-Klan stance, and its endorsement of slavery." They went on to call ... should! This is not the movie to show to kindergartners in lieu of Barney

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  Peak fall foliage has finally hit MIT. Some trees on campus started to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here ... "Gentlemen's Club" 19th birthday party, which is why I'm dressed up. July '05

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  hairy trig integral, or how to predict the products of that incredibly ... .02 (physics E&M) or 7.013 (biology). Everyone is always happy to lend a hand ... brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  solid. I’m on track to do better grade-wise than ever before, which is ... bones.  It’s that time of the year. The semester is coming to a close ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  better, this side of love seems to stick around longer than you want it to ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess ... relationship ends, you tend to look back on your experience and think about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  , which is much closer to an actual fire than most of our alarms are. It ... alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of ... which involved using a constraint, such as one from the Table of Forms, to ... mind also find themselves wandering over to writing. Writing is my minor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  much about MIT, but my job is to, in 30 or 60 or 90 minutes, encapsulate everything about MIT. So I hit on the central themes of MIT's culture, the ... driving back to my hotel, listening to the game on the radio, and they kept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  notably mine, Macgregor, which is all singles, but I've heard of freshmen ... being able to shut the door and get a good night of sleep. (Or, point in ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while ... assignments in on time. This semester, it has been week over week of trying to ... starting to program during office hours for 6.0001. All of this is great

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  fellow cadets - because our detachment is on the smaller side, you get to ... good number of you have been!) We hope to let you know a little more ... . ROTC is a really interesting program with a lot of cool opportunities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... try to ensure that no player on offense is left open, meaning for each ... thinks that is the level of execution i aspire to reach in solving the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022