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• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... essentially the same content. It was annoying at first, but became funny as it ... suffice as an explanation. I think I should receive at least partial credit

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  ="564"] the North End is lovely at night[/caption] i've also checked out ... comforting. i've started to work by the river/at random places across campus ... down for a whole month while at home, but i'm currently living with at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... spend time with friends. 2. I'm continuing my UROP at the MIT Education ... Melat (another UROP) was something I wasn't quite ready to give up yet. At

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  really great during your first few months at MIT; I really enjoyed building an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : they have history written right on them! Take a look at those dates, baby ... Doppler shift in the frequencies of hydrogen emission spectra at various ... .) at those points. -EME, or Earth-Moon-Earth communication. Bouncing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... with her mouth. I said I'd be more diligent and better at coding. This ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at ... time. I would get back to the dorm at midnight and collapse on someone ... intake was definitely approaching excessive. My sleep deprivation was at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  we wanted to go to industry, but #lol #yikes at our interviews. So now we’re thinking maybe to go to grad school, but are like #lol #yikes at ... ! Unexpectedly, they incorporated a lot of music into it and also a meme at the end

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... , so that they can commission at the same time as their graduation.   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little ... spots. Go explore. Take breaks when you're studying. No one can work at ... better at being at MIT, I've lost my grip on writing. I used to end a long

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

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point ... : https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/teaching-at-mit/"]Lab Assistant

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were ... . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes ... way or form, I’ve been here before.” Looking back at it all, I think ... HIV/AIDs at its core, the course took us to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... am a course 20 (biological engineering), and I am in my 3rd year at MIT ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  basic decision as Sam: whether to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do ... unsettled. Will they like 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather ... at either. The problem, for Sam, was not finding the right answer: the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  good. I look back on my fall classes and sometimes shudder at how little ... new paths, allowed me to marvel at the complexity of modern science ... , but I think I really did mean it at the time.] My favorite learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  military vessel stationed in Boston Harbor (although its runs at this point ... bike and using the GPS on your phone at the same time is not an effective ... Boston right at sunset showed me a view of the city I had never seen before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  you, huh? Well, here's the latest model if you want to look at it ... 'll see that this is a place of heartbreaking defeats -- but at the same ... will be those that happen at three in the morning. That reminds me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  about how the ink can start to peel away from the edges at every rip. The ... ’t concentrate at the museum; I felt hollow and unreal. My legs moved before I ... medical community, feeling both terrified at my own disconnect and at the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016