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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I ... Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... can. Thanks, Ekanem BC Front Desk The next day a second email arrived

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  imagine how excited the Class of '26 is when their last two years of high school were impacted so much by the pandemic. I hosted a mini virtual CPW ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in the house instead of disaffiliating because I wanted to explore this new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  -management were the standard, pre-planned journals that my school would give me ... ="relatable?"]phase.[/annotation] The good thing about bullet journaling is that you have infinite customizability, but the bad thing is that, uh, you have infinite customizability

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... the shit they talk about you is downright rude, racist, or sexist. I ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the Bay Area, and different from the one Dawn gave back in 2013. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... up the bio and pics, and then waited some more until I came back to the dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW ... questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to ... ? I know that it gets confusing with the over 200 events listed on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded ... became the structures that we see today. One such large-scale structure is the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... outside the MIT bubble. Sounds crazy, right? Well, do you want to leave home when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an undergraduate, and the other part came from me forgetting my password, but fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Decisions Details for retrieving your EA admissions decision on Monday evening.

  

  . Q. What is the process for receiving my admissions decision? A. When ...  https://decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... ://my.mit.edu and click on the lost password link in the orange log-in box on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... until you bring the experience full circle. It wasn't until Monday morning ... . Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much ... being. And the road has not always been smooth; I've been faced with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... 's not the real reason I'm posting. (Actually, it is, but I figured you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Sciences (Course 9) What's next: Entering the Biological and Biomedical ... small seminar-style classes heavy on reading and discussing the primary ... , seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006