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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... - but somehow, I've left out the classes I've taken as a freshman. Let me fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked: "Oh, and in later chapters, please include the being alone without ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs ... know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... accent. The names are fascinating too. Under any other circumstance, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  the entire 8.012 section had been left exam-less. Panic attack. I marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  couldn't be the case. I just had no sense of what college-level maths ... . So ending up in my first ever college class and asking the same ... missing the exact right words for this, but to put it frankly: Calculus felt

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to maintain a reasonable course load are just the beginning. Luckily, there are ... , let's look at all the tools we have available. Course Exploration

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason ... them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three ... twelve friends, where I’ll stay for at least for the next 2.5 months

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful ... the fuck not. Aiden looked pretty unconvinced, claiming it was his work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  The word advice comes from the Old French avis comes from the Latin ... attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule expiring, so here I am. Per my previous post: the November Rule is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this ... your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the ceiling?” “Are you this quiet all the time? You must be crazier in everyday

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology and the Arts, passing through a 3-midterm, 1-pset, 1-mini-paper week. It’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... other similarly great pains of the human experience. Anyway, here comes the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009