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• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her ... class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new ... for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to Susan Hockfield, but she never RSVPed). Since our return for the ... housemaster Roe, the floor convened to discuss how we would deal with similar

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... 't get to go. While anxiously waiting for their return, I've been pursuing ... , The World According to Garp by John Irving. 6. Gearing up for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this ... for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as ... buyer's card, good for 20% off your next purchase of up to $200. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to be done for comedy, or to emphasize the sad; rather, there is an ... being perceived and how to sing with purpose. we put on a musical that ... relationship with the world. doing this even once was hard. learning how to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  now to make sure everything works for you. Strange things happen to ... I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  engineer sitting to the other side. You can ask him how he’s freeze drying ... didn’t think it was possible for me to understand. By the end of the UROP ... complete INDEPENDENCE. At least for now, I'm happy to stay in the kitchen a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve ... track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... having difficulty choosing a major was "How do you know you want to do all ... Obviously I don't have to be good at these things, or even know how to do them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make ... how you vow to reinvent yourself, you will still be yourself at the end ... need to ask for help. That's why we have pass/no record. The space dog

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  (2007). Since then, that lawn area got demolished to make way for the new ... THE UES (or the Upper East Side, for you unenlightened folks ... "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  student working for him at Draper, because Adam knew how to design things ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my ... '08 for a trip to Water Wizz, a water park on Cape Cod that Adam used to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake ... the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how ... would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  double rainbow I took this summer for you to see yourself! I know I ... and needed to be shared, I took a video for all you MIT blog readers out ... actually started to thunderstorm a little across the river... fortunately for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  of MIT’s willingness to pay for you to travel) including England ... of ads looking for long-term roommates (I have places to be in the ... future travel demand (how many people will want to go here in the future

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... : YOU!!! Hope to see you there tonight! Love and "HOW HIGH CAN THE ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  collaborative problem-solving happens is that one person figures out how to solve ... always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond ... as chances to clarify misunderstandings and learn how I could improve

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024