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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  for it to grow and flourish. This kind of luck doesn't strike like a ... for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from ... step back from what they are doing to allow the space for good fortune to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like ... for Atlanta (where I'll connect to my Boston flight), the fact that I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... ) [click on the image to watch ZigZag] If you like ZigZag and would like to get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  simple joy of learning new tricks for running rehearsals while being a ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a ... individually commit and test each change you make, you just want to get something

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  shoulders, but I still wanted to get a fourth recommendation from someone for ... by the time I applied. It took a lot of work to get it that high, but ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... (accounting for the leap year), then perhaps you have too many friends. You get ... classes that you want to while at MIT, but this position is (for the most

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  contributed to my decision to come to MIT two years later). Fast forward to ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could actually have control over. I waited for him to tell me what to do, hoping he ... ’t set to start for another two weeks, I wanted to maintain some semblance

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with ... before leaving for the Italy Milan Mission. A call to serve in the Italy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  returned to Finland and set a new 10K world record that stood for 13 years ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more ... get back to learning more trivia. so oops. sorry if like, you actually

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to ... no one to mention it to. Only then does it get lonely. "n ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  connects to a rubber septum, which allows us to get samples by sticking a ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... information for various teams at the company, so I got to learn a lot about cool ... -internship was a totally new experience for me, logistically. I had never before

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... on psets and office hours and tutoring only to be greeted by C's and D ... Raymond and others to get through my coding assignments and I wonder if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  mention get to know the halls of our new dorm, so we decided to visit each ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  physics classes and become exposed to new mathematical techniques and ideas ... acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) by, for ... , explaining that he "wasn't expecting to have to get up and teach." This earned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... given to the stranger who brushes by you on the sidewalk.  In these times ... ="53148" /] Announcements for the world to see: [carousel image1="53265" image2="53264" image

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  of the airport to Doha's Corniche. My goal for the day was to stop by ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  on my current streak; that is to say, for each of the past 1000 days ... holding myself to them too strongly. I want to start running, not for the sake of physical fitness, but for the sake of proving to myself I can do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a ... this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011