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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... phenomenon, which is common at MIT: 6.00 lectures introduce basic concepts (e ... class best taken at MIT, as the Institute is on the forefront of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  activities while increasing health awareness and curbing dangerous behaviors at ... pretty pro. Look at these beautiful swirly crepes! Props to Niyati :) People gathering around the condiment table at Crepes Night!   One of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at ... get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way ... ’t seen you guys at all this year,” referring to our mutual group of friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  be happy to meet with me. Absolutely mortified at the idea that they had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on ... figured I might as well get all these conversations over with at once.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  headed out and looked at the tunnel system (MIT has tunnels that connect ... day). Disconcertingly, there was nobody else down there at the time. I ... going to be the new trend in blogging. Thursday: Woke up at 8:30 AM to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  love Boston weather. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I say ... the people waiting for me at the airport would just leave because they thought I wasn't coming, and d e stranded at Logan airport until my flight

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... like starting class at 10 am. And I really like that my day ends at 2 pm ... to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom drove me to Washington, DC, where I moved into one of the dorms at George ... take a psychology class up at Harvard that summer, but I ended up not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  hotel room at the Doubletree, having just gotten back from the Info ... information about Astrophysics at MIT:Astrophysics@MITProf. Alan Guth (rumored ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this ... away from this hobby. Now as I am starting my fourth year at MIT as a ... . At MIT, my aim was to maximize my experience. I told myself to expand

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  shortened and for a moment he stood at the edge and the world shrunk until ... of what exists. The genius rejects those constraints to stare deeply at ... happy looking at the world alone2, and the intensity to decompose and dive

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  towards the main building, where we met some staff at the Edgerton Center ... office took us to eat breakfast at a local restaurant called Shy Bird near ... black community and ask them questions about their experience at MIT

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  start at four, but pika’s stewards have just returned from Costco with our ... at pika and do more work on my pset. 12:42 a.m. My brain is not really ... directed laser beams at the same frequency to excite and measure a sample at

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  , I’ve found that timing is everything.  Being in the right place, at ... behavior, at least try to be a little patient with them now, and even indulge ... ’t think this is either side’s intention at the outset, but it just happens

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... my time at MIT was acting as sound engineer for Into the Woods in ... often now that I (in theory) have more time, or at least fewer deadlines

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  an overnight bus to get home. The bus boards this ferry at 2 am and ... everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of ... pretty, and I feel very at peace in the mountains. Then I saw the other

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  other relatives that all decided to meet up at the same time. One of the ... just ended up trying on weird outfits at the behest of the employees. I ... simultaneously begging for mercy, I had to intervene at times for the sake of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  was soon whisked away on an airplane to land in DC. I'm working at a ... a few years after graduating. She's a pastry cook at Seylou Bakery, chef instructor at Cookology Culinary School, and has made it a hobby to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  at MIT?” To be honest… IDK either, it kinda just happened; but  Maybe ... the question—the question is,  How does one become WIDE?  At first, I ... them! (I swear my majors are Legit™. At least MIT News and MIT Tech

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... on the ground, and stare at the wall. I'm pretty sure I had to do that ... right.—A year ago I moved to the US to study at MIT, and decided not to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023