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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of ... was kind of hoping that would happen, and it did. Props to them.) Their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny Moore of Aevitas Creative Entertainment. If you’re curious about how that ... first round of revisions and sent it back to Penny. When she replied with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  , mourning that minute of sleep that I’ll never get back. I reward myself with ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... amazing breakfast spread for us. I gobble down some food and bounce out of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and ... too :o"]2 days for Thanksgiving[/annotation]. Then, it's 3 more weeks of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  ." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too ... you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  happy to introduce you to MacGregor, MIT's only dorm composed of all ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries"; an entry forms the basic social unit of the dorm. The entries are named

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  recommendations for me, please let me know! Some of my favorite books are ... some sort of coding competition, like BattleCode, weblab, or Poker ... /play Just so I can see how this year went. I like keeping track of the media I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of ... before noon since Massachusetts is an hour ahead of Texas and I didn't go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh ... something right now. Here are some of my favorite pieces from the semester

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... interaction reduces the amount of time you have to think yourself into misery. I ... training. Five sets of six core exercises- there’s a variety of these; push

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... without falling asleep, leaving me with a total of an hour and a half before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a ... along the way.   There was the First Church of Christ Scientist and it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... of moving objects. Rolling, oscillating, and spinning. You name a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  this summer, there's lots of Pats chat to catch up on. As for the ... to routinely and regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012