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• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about failing classes (did you have any idea that I spent most of last ... see me and other MIT students in various states of disheveled, unshaven ... focusing on the play, but the work is certainly there. For those of you who

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  people running on treadmills. Four bottles of Soylent and a smattering of ... engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... event is held on campus, you are free to come and go as you please, but

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  occur on paper resulting from oxidation of both organic and iron ... vessel of content (text and/or illustrations).” This definition encompasses ... ,500+ Hemingway copy (one of 300 of a limited edition). Why, on the other hand, does

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... four hours from 8:00-12:00, the members of SaveTFP mixed, ladled, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  , here are my thoughts on each of them :-).   (1) incredible ... them really rewarding, with a generally fair amount of assignments, and ... , and local government law. Each week’s readings consisted of a set of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  parks and lakes, and lots of friendly neighborhood cats that love ... walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... expected. I think some part of it is because I really like Seattle, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  , the fifth floor of Building 9, the basement of Building 13, and so on. I ... accident and also ended up getting completely lost in the middle of Stata on ... scavenger hunt which were not on main campus. CJ: Yeah, but not any of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very ... music played by and for members of the science fiction fandom ... the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and who show up to conventions

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  corner of the couch and work on debugging code for my UROP. 6:15 p.m. We ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came ... is performed by MITSO, and obtain an Erdos number of 2, all of this in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... , getting 100% on most of my psets and not punting a single one, but because ... physically and mentally. I learned a lot of lessons that have forever changed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  mild sense of laughter in your chest, perform it, and move on. Noot ... reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy ... job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  somewhat eccentric poet, and an excerpt of his poem ‘Jerusalem’ focused on ... calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a ... was basic knowledge on differentiation and integration. I did some self

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... cool-- that was a lot of math (and it is about to be quite a bit more in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  Molecular and Cellular Biology" much more than I do actually doing any of ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... -debacle. This also made a fair amount of sense and isn't that random. I took AP

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of ... the room and attached another bag of morphine to the plastic tube which ... weeks staring at the ceiling, pondering life, pain, and the existence of a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  Pooch or McMutt? Feel free to answer any or all of these questions ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... about admissions and instead transform into a cozy place where we can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020