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• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  blog post, the one you're reading at the moment? It appears that blogging ... depleted for several months. There's a lot of reasons, professional and personal, why that's been the case. At this point, I've been able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  transcript.  I cross-registered for some classes at a different university and ... On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where ... sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... evidence shows that more women tend to wake up in time for lecture. (At least ... thinking over memorizing in the physics classes? Yes. At least for the intro

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... Emma spent winter break at home with her family! She also had some really pretty photoshoots on her Instagram and did a lot of work for rocket team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer ... everything to shut down for two days, though my roommate and I determinedly

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

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  him that was a prerequisite for going to elementary school. At 3, he ... Street was a 16, for instance. At Woodstock Elementary, his second ... . Third at districts in the shot put. School record for weightlifting in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have ... really cute thing my boyfriend/girlfriend did for Valentine's Day!" that ... taking 18.02 and 18.03 at the same time.) Um, so I was talking about Reg

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for ... essentially lived in lab for the next several days. Jared and I headed to lab at ... interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  [/caption] Friday nights were for office dinners at scenic restaurants like these ... -up;   We got up at 3 am to get to Nandi Hills for this view-- And this ... WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel. Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... promise my actual book will be more polished!"]edited for spoilers

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  this summer, there's lots of Pats chat to catch up on. As for the ... blogger! As usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however, we have a few upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... contrary, I am quite smart, because everyone at MIT is quite smart. No ... for narrative's sake, because some facts are both qualitatively and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... could, for example, self-study, or take the class at a local college. 2 ... rigors of the physics major at MIT, do you have time left over for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  education at a public high school to be a viable candidate for admission to ... for girls. These days girls best boys at nearly everything having to do ... purely at academics and well-roundedness or do they look for people who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10 ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  10,000 steps a day for at least 300/365 days. - This is also doable ... Celebration, a three-day conference for women in computer science. It was so ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  precedes certainty – at least for now.   You brought us work ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth ... projects that we hadn’t seen in years, and laughed a lot! So for that, thank

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... there was a preview button. For all the inconveniences of the analog

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... off #2 (Pull an all-nighter--for fun). I actually had more all-nighters for fun than for schoolwork in the past four years. In chronological

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012