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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  only two days to make my choice. Thinking back to those 48 hours, when I ... worked with each other to make sure we all "got" every problem, from ... quickly, almost feverishly, as I could to get down as much 8.012 knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  major has been so hard and fueled by indecision--I've had to [annotation ... major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... make the regretful decision to put this pset off until it's too late ... TALENTED DEV INTERNS TO HELP MAKE OUR BRILLIANT WORLD CHANGING [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show ... Services Extensions actually make work harder because it just pushes it to ... friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... to and from California twice more, and to Arkansas once. (Frequent ... visiting with my family and trying to do as little as possible before the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  station on Central Square and down Prospect Street, making my way to Sennott ... people want to play Tichu. The four of us play games for hours. By the time ... first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to introduce ourselves and make small talk in Spanish and I was really ... physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I ... strong urge to make him soup or knit him a sweater because I just think he

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  to judge if you're convinced or not :P I will start by saying that I am ... useful to have some flour in a shaker jar. It makes it a lot easier to dust ... more vegetarian lately and that can make it harder to hit the daily

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... gain from getting to know as many people as possible. I also quickly grew ... had any advice they wanted to give to the upcoming class.    

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... pictured above.) 2.) Notice how the first page says "Nathasha, help me," on ... before to finish three psets, so we were planning to keep each other awake

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please refer to this page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember ... stopped holding the bike and you rode it all by yourself (or fell down and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  of taking operating systems. by tuesday, i knew i wanted to [annotation ... last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this ... on Tuesday Night Yesterday I finished two 11-page essays for the same

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more ... the brain’s inability to process an overwhelming event than by the event ... I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  've changed! As for my UROP, my schedule is making it hard to get some hours in ... update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the question is: Ok, I guess... As a quick reminder my current schedule is

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... district. I happen to know what he looks like because an assistant addressed him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , though, I was lucky to make it into Boston (and I’m excluding visiting the ... , spending an hour making references to being on a boat and splashing each other and getting yelled at by the Sheriff for being too close to the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... to six schools. By the middle of February, I’d gotten into two. By the ... hair out trying to figure out which program to go to. By the middle of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... loved by. This extends to all of M3! We're all a little different. We look ... , planned largely by our friend Aleks (a.k.a Garbuz). The Threeks all went to

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been ... Stud. Most food on campus is a tad expensive, so I often opt to make my ... . I probably haven’t gotten the chance to make it clear enough so far

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023