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• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This ... teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... about him to add anything new to everyone else’s descriptions of him

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I ... afraid to think outside the box. Your base discipline, that which you are ... can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  's Day. New Years is in my[annotation note="only beaten by Chinese New ... 've never truly made New Years resolutions with a strong commitment to them ... it's a good way for me to try a new field. Full discloser: I am very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  smarter to sleep and get some efficiency back. I also got so inefficient ... --sometimes, it’s just getting through every week, every day, minute by minute. It ... where I am now. And, I've almost never had to do things completely by

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

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  your code to run, then try more things. i was able to get guidance from ... , i decided to go for it.  my class started by introducing exponential ... ), and then adjusting your views or beliefs after looking at the data to a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that ... trouble finding it. This morning, I woke up really early to a bright New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced ... . Postscripts to Clarify Intent I am the new desk captain at Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  and intensity, and it's intimidating to be told that by the end of this ... "Spatula Bot") that tries to climb the steep hill by keeping my center of ... controllers provided by 2.007 aren't terribly reliable or easy to use.  I decide

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  by looking out the window. As long as you're sitting, you're ... to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  , there's an official, MIT-specific definition). When you get to Campus ... it, is easily accessible by you. Feel free to explore and check out the ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  finish The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which I really enjoyed, and to ... more insight. I feel like I'm getting closer to that moment, and it feels ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better inform your design. The second part, creativity, is harder to define.  It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  Dome) Hacks and meta-hacks (an MIT map gets modified to include the ... . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  everyone who’s already swung by and everyone else to come. If you also want ... Tick list. Oomf. I need to get on that. I know I'm on top of the things that I ... being recalibrated (projected to be by mid-July) excites me. School

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  break. Nadia M. '17 even taught Butterstick to spin by enticing her with ... residents, mostly frosh, she's a new arrival at Simmons. Unlike those residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  , would provide invaluable clues for developing new ways to diagnose, treat ... Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... intramural sport. Didn't get to be Undergraduate Association President

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  at the front seat Ninjas. Somehow, I didn’t get hit too much. I had to ... . And if you ever want to a chuckle, find a way to get the list of 101 ... one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014