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• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the ... anticipation (namely, “aaaaa-do-we-really-want-to-throw-away-one-of-our-precious ... -feel-like-we’d-rather-be-doing-more-artsy-things”) was a big reason we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be ... 't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want ... ’m doing are super exciting. I have one other big goal this summer. For the past two or so years, I’ve held myself in a tug-of-war between doing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’ll help me figure out what I want to do with my life. If I get through the ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won ... a required class for my major, so I’m going to do my best and hope for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a ... idea you could even do when I first came. Global Teaching Labs (GTL) This ... to find out about it…but they do exist. Some specific departments

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have ... ?? This is what 3 years of MIT will do to you...) 2.74: Bio ... type of work I want to do in the future (robotics!). ***** While I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  that I do not regret, for one second, taking 6.005: Elements of Software ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... caution to everyone heading into college, or currently there: don’t do it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... fairs. One nice part about this year's career fair is that we do get the ... 're on PNR, you technically could put 5.0/5.0 as your GPA. Up top, I do

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own ... open. No longer do we respond with “Of course I will help you move your 5

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  management experience, nor do I have any Course 6 experience aside from AP Comp ... realize I don't know what I want to do in life. Great. So I start filling ... completed resume. Nor do I have fancy shmancy stuff to wear.   D-1: 3

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  will probably do a few later posts about the details of things like ... MIT is they know exactly what they are doing when they pick out every ... classes here….. So I shall do that……… ummm…… (Suspense must be killing you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  all of my graduation prereqs, so it was just a matter of doing all of my ... doubt about the decisions I made and still do question if I made the right ... blast doing it. I've always been a performer and wanted to end up in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was ... textbook. You won’t regret it. But what does this have to do with Linked ... macros. But when anyone asks me what I’m doing this summer, I tell them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do ... , you’ll do amazing things anyway.” I can show you all the world ... impending success at whatever you choose to do. Because, you know, it does

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  over. What you do have control over is your attitude. Attitude is ... when all you want to do is sleep. Because if you don't maintain attitude ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... here.  Don't waste it doing activities you could do in your parents

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  how awkward my body is. My stance is haphazard. What do I do with my hands? My voice sounds the same no matter what I try to do with it. My ... others began to do the same; then, after looking at a wall of problems, we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  at 21cm wavelengths. "Why the heck do hydrogen atoms emit at 21cm ... ; the particles aren't actually whirling around the same way that you do ... spins do matter to the hydrogen atom. If the particles are spinning in the

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

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  record a class and do it over. After a frightening semester of flying ... let the heaviness of my fears of having to do complicated calculations ... whenever I had too much else to do that night, or if I simply wasn't feeling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012