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• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... and my PI was in Eastern Time. Studying for the GRE was also very self

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try to make it during the next break. But given the current circumstances of quarantine, we were given the chance to make the recipes earlier

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on ... have strong memories of 7th-grade-Cami curling up on the couch, watching "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... summer! Freshman Summer We took the summer off! We pretty much knew throughout our freshman year that we would just take the summer off. We had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  CPW 2014 was the reason I chose MIT. At the time, the Institute wasn’t even my top choice, but after the amazing weekend, I caught myself spontaneously planning my life here on walks around the neighborhood and during

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Ah, Reg Day. The day when *ALL* (except freshmen) MIT students meet with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  from Somewhere, then barrel full steam ahead down the relatively unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the ... medical school: about the application process, about what makes a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point. Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check out the first one for some Q&A.] Last Thursday night, Ruth emailed the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  As I started putting together the latest Questions Omnibus, I ... am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by ... contains the supplemental materials by now? The disc is labeled with my name

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  .s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my ... . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  Boston after surviving my first MIT finals season. The verdict? Lukewarm ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... show adMITs the software-free laser cutter, called Contour, that we built ... "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around ... schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Random Hall. I realized that when I was browsing the blogposts, I didn ... source of Random content) and I feel like that was partly the reason I didn't really come to discover the quirky little dorm until the last day of CPW

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that ... like I'm writing. It feels like words are appearing on the page. When it stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet ... office hours I waited way too late and the room I got was a special room above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025