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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  a new skill, doing research, or building an awesome project. HP and ... ’t be able to do much. When your MP and HP drop below a certain threshold ... category are the things you do when you are not actively spending time in any

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  original experimental study (i.e., not only library or Google research) with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don ... and I need 54 more units in order to hit that 180 number."]I need to do ... . I'll be doing a later post this week on everything I've read, listened

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  everyone has to do field work, I’ve really enjoyed getting to go camping and ... Most course 12s also do [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake ... taking this, because I was going to do SuperUROP instead, but since I ... REALLY hate public speaking - as do most people - but honestly, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  with Alan Guth? If you don't, quick synopsis: my section hadn't received ... DEFINITELY in this building, and we DEFINITELY do not have exams." Ten seconds ... Physics degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  emphases individual Δ measurement. Do you have to be in the very front to win? No. (But you'd better be near the front real quick or have a breakout ... process? Let's say you applied EA to MIT and were deferred, what did you do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  I've really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I'd do a quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... be enjoyable and fun. What once was my most hated subject quickly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  watching a bunch of tutorials and was quickly humbled back into doing my work ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... my week generally looked like. Some things I do consistently such as my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  need to find a job or something productive to do over the summer. Senior ... decisions about what you're going to do after you leave. You haven't been ... bigger risks than I do, considering the uncertain future I'm talking about

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... forms filled out (take note, do not try to fill out all of the forms on ... should know about a Moonbounce, it inflates really quickly. 30 seconds and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been ... -family members. We had a quick two hour flight to Seattle before flying to DC. I ... ="And quickly realizing I hadn't sold all my turnips and it was Saturday and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  heavily on some pdfs and images that we found when we Googled “bottle rocket ... easiest). Curiosity got the best of us so we turned to Google and our ... ’t really feel like doing psets or studying. Part Three On the first Sunday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more ... Lab, but our project is sponsored/housed at Google. We create the ... life of a Media Lab UROP....well, not exactly. My team moves from Google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form instead of a Google Spreadsheet.” This was immediately deleted by someone

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence) and[annotation note = "tl ... worst fear...   8.01 (Physics I) What I would do to not have to do ... "get the right answer", 8.01 is "do you understand this through vector

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA ... ; though you can keep doing this until you’ve used up all your vectors. The ... the red segments, which goes all the way to the opposite side. We can do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  company presentations I have a vague sense of what different industries do ... had only a vague sense of whether I was doing it well, but I scoped out ... becoming overwhelming. Alternatively, what are you supposed to do if you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  feasibility. It's a lot to see on one page, so I broke it down into a quick list ... -HASS classes and quickly eliminating the ones that fall to the bottom of the list ... myself to do a coding class in high school. Somewhere along the lines

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to ... from watching. For example, do you know how to make a roux? Or properly ... definitely do, and it’s thanks to shows like this. Plus, they’re funny! On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016