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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  -spirited, and was occasionally funny. 2:52pm: I should also note that the real ... : "Living and learning at MIT is not a spectator sport." 9:24am: President ... ." They talk back and forth about Sam's dream of becoming an astronaut and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  , allowing us to be authentic, vulnerable, and real. Whether it’s motivated by ... This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• 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.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I ... so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you ... bags. TSA Agent: Have a good flight. Me: Thanks! TSA Agent: And welcome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Cold War built right through its center and accompanied by a 150-meter ... East-West standoffs, reunites almost by accident in 1992, and then fifteen years later is the capital of Germany and its most popular tourist

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  bike there after 3-6-0? Matt and Jose are going. We can invent a dance ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they ... from campus, the food is unspectacular, and the prices are fairly high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  in terms of walking and public transit; it helps me get from point A to ... moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination with the hubbub of CP✱, this year's iteration of CPW, and my general

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  [/annotation] making a CSS demo which is real neat in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Sunday I ... As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  this semester. 9.12, 24.900, and WGS.271 are all writing intensive classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication-intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... . I know, I know, you're probably going crazy right now - real live people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It ... affirmation. And on the other end, I’ve heard so many scary stories about coming

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day ... mathematicians actually... do?" And it's not like I haven't had this question

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... you don't care for citation and just wanna know, I explain it below

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  the mythology of a place like MIT and making it seem real, approachable ... college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... classes, enjoying my time in them, so on and so forth. It seemed, however ... friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  theory and methods in the social sciences. My first real Harvard class ... wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... popular perceptions and policy implications. Students use multiple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  have no real intuition or feeling on this and I haven't gotten a response ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by ... going to countless recruitment events and throwing my hat into a whole

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... instead to meet my deadlines and work on projects I've been dreaming about ... Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022