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• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where love was the twisting in my chest I felt when he looked at another person ... school, I felt like I had found the one. I dreamed of exchanging vows on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... 're ahead, you're suddenly behind. I know I could just finish the psets

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without ... .... ...and she has become intimately familiar with the different stresses ... I from preschool all the way through AP Physics C in high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  't halt for us either, and all the hosts are regular MIT undergraduate ... . Second, be on the lookout in your email for more specific information later today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push, clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  exam, or the occasional deep, probing conversation about life, the ... awake with whom to have a deep, probing conversation about life, the ... there is indeed something else keeping me up: Tonight is the last night

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most ... directly into other people’s heads (pay close attention to my use of the word ... this video that I made with the help of another class of 2019 (Thank You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... shotgun house in the Bywater, soaking up the sunshine and warm wet air

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then choose one ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then ... with somewhat of a plan, and you'll probably be fine. Some members of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... around 9:30, and started right in on the 18.03 pset that was due Friday. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... started class???? Like what??) (It’s apparent that disease does not know the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The entire state of Wyoming (population 509,300) has fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... , as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you just get stronger”. i think these sayings are communicating the same

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close friends from the philippines died from suicide, and it’s been troubling me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... that when there are more pressing issues at hand- like the fact that ... of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007