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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and underestimate what we can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is ... I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have ... , we've had a lot more time to do this because we always have to do like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem ... many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically ... what they do and how they cause disease, and 3) a mouse neurobiology lab ... . Grad school has been treating me well. I've been doing mostly the same

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... that this happened quite a while ago. My days have been filled with RA ... twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  bored by the monotony (and you probably will), do something new. Start a ... ? Do computers play a big part in life in general at MIT, or just for ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math ... here. Anyone with a 720 has the potential to do just as well at MIT as ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  interviews has changed (though Chris' other observations remain accurate). A ... are telltale signs - a hint of gold above the treetops, an orange leaf carelessly strewn along a sidewalk, the squirrels anxiously scuttering about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a ... perfectly normal thing to do when writing a novel. Little by little, I ... really not wanting to do it. But I have a handle on my infatuation now. It

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  realization I came away with was, “how do teams spend six weeks doing this?” A ... If you are unfamiliar with the FIRST Robotics program: FIRST is a ... “kickoff day,” where a brand-new challenge is revealed and teams are given a

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  interviewer had a more favorable sense of the interview than you did. Rarely do ... It's been a long time since my last Q&A post - sorry for the delay ... do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  fell asleep at nine. So when I have a lot of work to do and don't feel ... , stop updating your blog. Just stop it. For a month. No, just don't do it ... Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  a glimpse into what you'll be able to do a few years down the line. My ... Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at ... ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  bloggers an email about a $10,000 scholarship for any bloggers who attend ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  , do you want a fail proof way to know which bread and drink are yours ... IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno ... ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016