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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in ... present. Just as Monica and I started to reminisce about Middle School, when ... friend: Monica! How you've grown! Monica: Hello! Random family friend (to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  appreciate the attention to detail regarding how the pieces are placed. Makng ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] ABOVE: "How We Make Someone Invisible, 1 ... 've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... years back, to help arrange ice time for me with her coaching team. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  Studies, visited the class to show everyone how to make a German apple cake ... COVID-19 Panel We learned about how culture affects responses to the ... presentations on Spanish urbanism and Taekwondo, which I'm very excited for. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that ... beautifully how to analyze everything, but says that analysis is only a tool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... good fit for the school. Who better to develop your character than you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  the[annotation note="this also gave me an excuse to avoid studying for ... to write about my life for college essays. Writing about your strengths ... of waiting for decisions, and remember to enjoy your senior year of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... upkeep, food (I'll get to that later), paying for our two cats, and buying ... you to shut the door.) We also try to see how many people we can cram

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... fantastic opportunities in the past year. Ministry of Supply got to present on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  so hopeless. I don't know how to process it any more than I already ... on in my life, let alone how to write about it." A lot has changed in ... 've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -budget startups and nonprofits to pay me something resembling minimum wage for my ... pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... without pictures, so here are 14 photos from 2024 to compensate for my 14

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to ... Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... was even more alluring because the MSA invited Yasir Qadhi to present a ... four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  advice on how to write an essay for one of her students. here is what I ... line for the casserole. how would you respond to them —  introspectively ... , no matter how smoothly you try to form your sentences, they invariably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old ... Spanish essay due tomorrow and 5.12 to study for, but I feel I must get this ... trying to be somebody they're not. But how is this relevant? In this day

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to ... , there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do ... addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... because of his night class, so Allan went for both of us to support our ... Animatic Boston panel we went to earlier this year! 19) The pamphlet for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he ... five minutes for the form to load fully and then I hit submit and the ... piece of hardware to play nice with it for a class project...or the time I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually ... professor could ask questions for the students to answer with clicker remotes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  you're presented with so many opportunities that you don't know how to ... decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my ... that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007