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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... kind of avatar defines me as a person?” Who cares? Spring semester was, in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... , while also working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a ... spring I took a chance with five classes, and while I made it through it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7pm and bedtime: 1. Baking a cake for my friend Sam's birthday 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte ... impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot ... say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11-page story, two midterms and starting a new UROP hasn't left a whole lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a ... extracurricular activity or two, plus a UROP, and still graduate on time and happy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... nontraditional research in a variety of disciplines. This year, awards were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised ... publicly. At a recent meeting, we were going around talking about how our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  About a year ago, I posted a blog about what I thought would be my ... return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... many calls that I ended up making a spreadsheet to rank all the hold

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  future, or people who time-travelled from a year before 2024: "Aura points ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... ."]Family Weekend[/annotation] about a week ago (a few weeks ago, by the time this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a ... too. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blogpost about how I was halfway

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my ... a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... . Then that following fall I lived with four people including myself in a ... anyone else's benefit (if it's helpful, that's a plus) but also just as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a ... college; others advertised a research internship as early as sophomore year

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

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

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... ." "Yeah, I know. You told me that last time." He grabs a plate and starts

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

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  more closely with students as a college counselor in a high school setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with each other while taking a break from psets late at night.  All of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019