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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The Blessing of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my ... wading around in the rising water, making sure that everything essential was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  international students.   The Early Action deadline is fast approaching ... in this thread. However, before you submit your question (in the comments below), I'd like to ask you to really look for the answer here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a connoisseur of next week's problem sets. The next morning, my esteemed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  The first time I walked down that hallway, the world was white. Many ... would say something like “I’d also come to learn that the world was white because of something called ‘snow.’” That would, however, be the most false

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT, but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... was alive to witness it. And the current fear, anxiety, and uncertainty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free-food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... about what MIT peeps do during the summer since the holiday is fast approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  unofficial Course XIX still lives on to the present day). I met Dr. Lee last week when my supervisor at the Oakland clinic I worked at introduced me ... ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  ) considered? If yes, how would you evaluate them? The grading scheme is different from those in the US school systems." We're quite familiar with non-US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  the beginning, I had some time to blog but I was like...uhm I don't have ... BOOM 7.03 exam BOOM getting the results back BOOM sadness and depression ... "bushy-tailed, eager-eyed young beavers" out there (hehe, I love the quote

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  to MIT, I am sad to report that the habit has ceased and I no longer ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... the Cambridge Half Marathon, but was no longer able to run it, so she

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... (1995), Dance for Two (1996), or Reunion (2003). In 2002, he cofounded the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  -- Almost six years ago, I wrote this entry - Notes on the Interview, which, based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a few people (1804 emailed? really? :D). Now, I'm sitting at the other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  (from the MIT campus newspaper, The Tech. This comic was published in ... developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl for post-graduation opportunities. This means talking to the career office, going to info sessions, and wading through the internet’s many

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year ... from the bubble to glimpse the wider world and plot real moves. And ... the spiritual opposite of summer - instead of escaping, it's about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023