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• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this ... I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when ... was a rich sense of community that developed out of this house and it ... the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  the real life Jack Ma, the wealthiest man in Asia and founder of the ... ambiguity of real life, with no clear good and evil people, yet, a lot of good ... much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  hour, and they mingled around and spoke with students about real issues ... between students and MIT Medical, and the MedLink role involves helping people go through rough times and directing students to the proper

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  underwhelming. I got a free Bundt cake and [annotation note="a few years ago when ... 'd share the two that I have and do some reflecting on who I used to be ... ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  semester begins Tuesday, and so will begin the class I’ve been diligently preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I’m glad I’ve learned so many things, and I’m glad MIT gave us all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  back for, and that, obviously, is the most fun we have all year. Since ... server, so we headed over to our dorm and started decorating. We added orange and black banners, a speaker system, fireworks, and "DTYD" in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... intimidatingly) as a “bomb cyclone” hit us yesterday with a foot of snow, and it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  and skinny (yfr). But then the REAL Woon Teck with bleached blonde hair ... while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  googling all the wrong terms and people have characterized these things 5 ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am ... math and I’m tired   1:41 am: why don’t aquaporins have spec

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I ... would always wake me up). It felt so nice being back; and yet so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret agents before my sister and I were born, and now they're just picking their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  her a few facts about Cornell, and then I'd be money. I was sure that ... Over the Memorial Day Weekend I packed the family into the car and ... Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be at odds with one another: Marilee's contributions over the years and her mistakes. And we must move forward. Marilee's influence was widely

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in ... pajamas eating pretzels and twizzlers during reading season and selection ... metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to ... between you and me is about 10^-7 newtons. Let's be friends!" Okay, no ... , and Flows in Biological Systems. Mainly I am learning that I am not so

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012