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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  .) have created the first-ever reconstruction of Roman climate. Now, the ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of ... ="attachment_73145" align="aligncenter" width="756"] one of the first things you see ... the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn ... , unfortunately, fell very ill the 2nd day, so I had to learn some of her material and teach 9 out of the 10 days mostly on my own. (don't worry, she

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... experience.   The effort spans the early phases of product development

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... I don’t have to navigate the crush of people during passing time I ... favorite parts of the job. If you have ever been to one of my sessions you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... taught it, Fall 2012, he earned a 6.8/7.0 teaching score in the end of term ... gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social ... pad and acoustic guitar, though i've kind of fallen in love with the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... and unstoppable. Watching her sprint down the left side of the field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  Large Hadron Collider, and how it was the first supercollider of its kind ... audience for questions, the first of which came from a professor to my right ... was the first sign of the Higgs boson. It was a reveal which had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  Standing Exam instead. Because of that, this semester was the first time I ... science department's pure coding class sequence. I never took the first class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan. It also means that we have the highest per-capita average of fire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP psychology class, we learned about the different theories of emotion ... experience of emotions hinges on two things: (1) the physiological arousal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  view of whatever river that is that runs parallel to it. The first drop ... looked at that first drop, I felt genuinely scared of a coaster for the ... current residents of the hall went to Six Flags". I mean, "the 5th East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005