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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  , someone is always going to undercut you and counter your "I only got 5 hours ... . Training.   There you go, you're now on your first step to becoming ... Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  -9000's, and your Terminators. I decided to knock out all three 6-4 math ... professors teaching this term, so I've been making an effort to pay attention ... 'm also making an effort to camp out in office hours more. I'm 500% more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... would allow you to do awesome research as an undergrad. Has this been your ... valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  would be to finish your applications way early to avoid all of the stress ... ) Examples are good. Be specific. Make sure to choose teachers who actually know you to write your letters of recommendation. You may even want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  lab comes from your checkoff, which you can complete by going to an open ... exam make up the brunt of your 24.09 grade, but my weekly workload for ... that’s the way it has to or should be: I still make an effort to balance

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  hard it is to make a circle on an etch-a-sketch! CNC lets you design ... my schedule, but now it's time to show just what I've been busy with ... , meaning that we learn to *gasp* manufacture and machine things. MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  to finish off the weekend. If you're a prefrosh, come by! If you're not ... late-night crepe-making on Friday Breakfast, board games, 23.001: Intro to Hippie Stereotypes, DIY clothing workshop, telephone pictionary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Check out these t ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  blog posts as I wanted to make. I have little bursts of creativity ... -hour access to the studio but no one telling you what to make or when ... make something, do it--or decide to do it--right then. That's my advice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  make you want to tear your hair out. Moreover, they generally can't be ... 've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I should work on to make my writing better? No one had ever said that to me ... , where you make reference to it. Summarize your points at the end of each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  cutting your fingernails? Makes ya think, doesn't it? People goof around ... Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... parts of myself to make it simpler for others to understand. Everything ... the same time, she found it difficult to make things a personal matter

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  -starting people; cool ideas pop into their heads and off they go to make them into ... objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a ... there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  students and to empower them to be effective leaders capable of making a ... motivated and passionate students who truly wanted to make a difference. When ... helped a student who wanted to make a difference in his community write and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... trips and open skies and late nights and time to think make me talk like ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  stay on the phone with her.   1:30 PM: I make my way to the ... speed-walk back to East Campus, change my clothes, and make a peanut ... have to put on your gear, get on rope, ascend, change over to using your

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ."  Instead, I have to hope that making you aware of our interest in the water ... to better understand you and your achievements. ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024