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• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  . In fact, as part of MIT’s[annotation note="General Institute ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  to spend 10 weeks working with one of the top research institutes in ... In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  Three summers ago, I visited MIT with one of my fellow schoolmates ... ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... stay over for a night at the Institute. Having heard so many amazing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  students to push the boundaries of science and technology. As such, I was ... highlight who the professors are outside of MIT. And the videos are truly ... of preparing this post, contributing their time and voices and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... figure that out. That class requires a different mode of thinking that I ... any of them. MIT is so big, and everyone here is so smart, and sometimes

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  Wars fan, I’d love to help create the kinds of technologies that once ... getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  dozens of web technologies and libraries that sprouted seemingly out of ... Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of ... now in front of this big window overlooking the busy street of Mass Ave ... Snickers happily snuggled into my side. I miss the smell of freshly prepared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference ... talking to dozens of high schoolers about ridiculous survival scenarios

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’s episode of [annotation note="censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not ... of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... preferred temperature meter is"]70 degrees[/annotation] weather, as you will

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010