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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now ... , there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  with Ernesto we've decided to plan the whole trip today. This is a day of ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  my meetings. I pull out my notebook to scribble down the first draft of ... are a handful of graduate students, and I’m the token undergraduate. The first speaker is Josh Shiode. Josh has a PhD in astronomy from UC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... walls, white fluorescent lights—facing six bathroom stalls. The first six

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy included). Even though winter break itself ended on the 4th of January, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first ... ourselves. The head lecturer, Andy MacInnis, had a lot of woodworking ... other topics, he brought in various experts: one of the TAs had worked in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2 ... : Rhino, a device for masons to help speed up, and clean up, the repair of ... :   and a recap of some fond memories from the class: 2.009 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  imagine how excited the Class of '26 is when their last two years of high ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in ... the hazy memories of my CPW to guide me. this is totally credible and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of ... the months to the start of freshman year, posted some blog comments

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name ... Network. The Quest Scholars Network is a group of all MIT Quest Scholars

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  the real world in front of the whole class even though you were totally ... Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  whole point of the Thevenin/Norton thing is making the assumption that ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  contact information for all the other first-years. Guess how many of the ... of the first-years in the Harvard BBS PhD program are MIT grads. See ... had been learning the whole bunch of thing in a different language (and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a ... out using data and careers information from the *French version* of the companies' home pages. Everyone was so happy in class today -- I guess the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  -up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two years ago! where has the time gone??"]first started[/annotation] blogging ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  worried about it than I am about my first major paper due the day after both the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... abundance of Diadema antillarum, the spiny sea urchin, inside and outside of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... in the new ideas section of the binder. I think if I am being ... this: if you are completely ignorant of what's in the ocean and all you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  ’ve done the first step of identifying the problem, so this blog is me ... -owned restaurants. My plan was as follows: the first two weeks of IAP I would spend ... or interest.  So, for the first two weeks of IAP, my waking hours were

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  , girl - during the first snow of the year and ran around in a circle. (me ... writing the entry: I basically translated the whole show...haha > ... a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  showing you two more pictures from the evening. The first is of me with my bff Sophie :) and the second is an unfortunate candid shot of me; my now ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012