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• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 ... hours of sleep, the scenery at Glacier National Park almost brought me to ... was worth it. So we slapped it onto our itinerary and started hiking at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... house sucks? What if you have to stay at home with your family?!? Me ... ’t taken it yet, or even studied at all! It’s going to be so much work, and

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ="attachment_54934" align="aligncenter" width="225"] look at the clean, shiny surfaces ... excited about this. I thought, at the time, that only MacGregor had gotten ... most dissatisfied? I looked at when Washlava-related confessions were

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a ... me seem at the time.  When I came to MIT and moved to Senior Haus, I ... . He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... Monday.   How do you make friends? What is your community at MIT ... ’m definitely not unique in that perception. If you look at freshman Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I ... situations, but I think I’ve gotten better at that. Then, I researched the ... , the Myers-Briggs test is, in fact, not scientific at all. Even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... a list of numbers like 2,3,9,15…, the running sum starts out at 0. You ... more involved problem that arose in 6.046. I’ll discuss it at a high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  being a wide-eyed froshling (freshman) at MIT (or any other college), the ... lot of people all at the same time during freshman orientation, but ... there says MIT CSC). We have a tradition of taking at least one photo

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  had to convince myself that… at some point, my health [and mental health ... opportunities at MIT and there is knowing that the social and taking care of ... definitely a very major problem that I experienced at MIT. Whenever I would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  humanities at MIT were very much a thing, and Anne Hunter of course 6 fame, who ... fourth grade. I find that unbelievably cool. At the time we were applying ... shouldn’t have been at all embarrassing, and it isn’t looking back on it

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  . I really have learned a lot during my freshman year at MIT.  I learned ... these classes. So all in all, even though it was terrible at times, I ... touch with.  In fact, just last week a bunch of us got together at my dorm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I ... (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... instructors, pulled my chute at the correct altitude, and soon I was drifting

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... as a reasonably meritocratic mission, at least for an online university ... critics of elite admissions processes tend to make their cases at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  we did on our trip was find out all about them at the Cable Car Museum ... actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... , or a nickel at the time) and there are some figures that move around or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up ... . My job, at least initially, will be to experimentally characterize this ... LIGO, like at the Yale lab the search for WIMPs (whose facilities we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  other (mine has my name and a field hockey symbol). Here at MIT, we do ... to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the ... of the sophomore year designing the ring, which is unveiled at an event

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  for some Dim Sum at Chau Chow City, a restaurant that also features ... person coming at you on a bike, steer clear. Not just for your own sake ... Boston, anyway. What I'm getting at is that the trip down to Dim Sum was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV ... information about me and my school and that I was chosen to represent India at ... immediately sent an e-mail to the Admissions Office. At this point, will you all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has ... course load at MIT"]48-unit schedule[/annotation] that averages over 100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  incredible, at least to me, in the sense that I have literally never seen ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... both at the ideas I have for revisions and the original quality of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023