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• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  have played a role in some of these things, it isn't the whole story. I ... took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and ... you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  is the first of my two Taiwan stickers that were designed by artist ... emotional breakdowns and two whole pints of Ben and Jerry's to finally come to ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  around us. I disagreed, pointing out that the bits of whole peanuts ... upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... time in 8.01 was something the professor taught us in the first few weeks ... be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  currently in the process of building the first 2-stage collegiate spaceshot ... to check it out. My first introduction to RT was at CPW. One of the ... . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have ... proper grammar standardized english). It's the time of year (midterms ... on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  figured that that's what the whole building was. The point is: I thought ... crucible slipped and fell down the sleeve of my lab coat. I shrieked and started flailing my arm like a maniac. The crucible shot out of my sleeve at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... events page (linked at the bottom of this post) for when the fly ... marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  recall the article on the “The Coddling of the American Mind,” one of many ... . 12:00 → New observation: Harvard Yard reminds me of the East Campus ... first competency-based teacher education program. Instead of regimented

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of-the ... class for mechanical engineers - you learn the basics of using a mill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  's fantastic). The kicker is classes for the rest of the world start first week in March, and ours have been going since the beginning of February, so ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... ="aligncenter" width="313"] another perk is the incessant stream of emails from record ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may ... it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard were never able to tell funny jokes (or give the correct window count of ... something along the lines of “20 HV, which is about as hard as paper, so not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  the application, which in and of itself was pretty awesome. The first ... season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... each other within a certain area of the bird’s brain, and the ... electrical signals from surrounding neurons to the cell body of the neuron

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  little bold with this whole idea, but there's a whole lot of our reputation ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... here in the first place. But what about those other qualities that aren

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  spent the first half of my week home crying. Full body shakes and sobs as I cried into the late hours of the night. I was stressed by my classes ... state of self isolation. I knew it was stupid. Part of it came from the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020