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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  you don't. Recently, I'm dealing with a new kind of synthesis problem ... much I can add to my system before overheating. I quickly discovered that ... advisor and made many phone calls home. Drop date was quickly coming up, and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  , quick thinking and enthusiasm. Keep it up, don't lose heart, and go knock ... remember that feeling. Professor Adams probably wrote it quickly and didn ... 's trip to Australia, when he claimed it for England and named it New South

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  chore and you actually start becoming excited about designing new assays ... , but I quickly notice that none of the postdocs in the lab really ever ... new peripheral parts, sadly. Even computers get worn out by the labors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  registration, of course, was to find the admissions office. I quickly scanned the ... Bridge…like a bajillion times! I quickly found the Skullhouse fraternity ... jut out d) A very new feel (maybe because it is new) e) Amazing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  . [/annotation] I’m happy to say that both my [annotation note="one of the new apps ... : New York and Toronto I did not have many nice things to say about New ... [/caption] kinda tourist trappy? the price was reasonable and service was quick, but

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  pretty quick. I lost waterbottle flipping against Pablo and a round where I ... showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... , that’s only 0.3 miles… BUT STILL"]from New Vassar to the physics building

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like ... focus groups for new initiatives or helping out with CPW. I've enjoyed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  naively thought that I could see all of NYC in 3 days and was quickly ... experiment with new food. I had never eaten as many salmon as I had this summer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  Israel's vaccinations were proceeding quickly, so I figured that things ... , and figure out how to get my passport, which was in New Hampshire, to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... multisquential story on a single sheet of paper, a rule I quickly exploited by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  . This class is quickly shaping up to be my favorite ever; the readings and ... nowhere New Hampshire, run by ourselves on what would normally be an actual

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  avoid the new jewelry from catching and getting stuck. I was too excited ... of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  ."]dormspammed[/annotation] advertising a new computer science internship opportunity. At this point, I had ... canceled left and right. My hopes were quickly drained. An internship I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... quick note: Things that aren’t on my schedule are 1) MTG, and 2) a UROP

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

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  (chat over lunch, behavioral, technical-coding , technical-design-me-a-quick ... a smaller 2.009 where you design and build a new toy. It's great going

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  entirely new!], or that a career in engineering sounds like the bomb [editor ... ]. On a simpler note, you’ll discover pretty quickly how you fare on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  couldn’t. So here I am, in a new city, surrounded by people I don’t know ... sometimes, dating is hard. I quickly found out that when roughly 13% of a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... quick ice cream fix. Stata Market Produce stand Located in the Gates

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  these people? I quickly realized during first semester that actually, my ... thought, I had already. Failure is nothing new to me, and, most importantly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015