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• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics ... certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written ... worst experience I’ve had so far as a Physics major here. While many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... getting a triple would be a nightmare. But I got lucky because we all have ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  we invite everyone in our prospect database in a ~100 mile radius ... -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , many more students double major or minor in a non ... combining a humanities/arts/social science (HASS) Course with a non ... can be in your HASS major, which goes a long way towards completing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student-illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... 2003. Then one afternoon, I got a phone call. Actually, I missed a phone ... area code. Who knows it could be MIT!" I responded with a snarky remark

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub specialty of Mechanical Engineering called Course “2A”) and I’ve only now been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot ... something claim: boston weather sucks   fact: well, only a little bit if you ... holds this belief"] claim: the bloggers are a collective hivemind who hang

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  I've never considered myself a very natural leader. I'm usually pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  here's a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... documentaries! Recently I've been thinking a lot about my future. I've written

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020