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• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  . Maybe there’s a way to be optimistic about all this. After all, there is a ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... by an antsy anticipation, by the sensation that your muscles should be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to be immediately answerable by any of our discussion above; all seem ... : Why do you want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. Contrast it ... want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. The conversations end

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... myself, I’d be in jail” (from “Girl Named Hello” by of Montreal ... happened recently is that I feel less pressure than before to constantly be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  the place I was supposed to be. By the end of this year, I’ll have ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... reaction, though it may not necessarily be strong enough to prevent the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with ... and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... decisions, let’s cover some procrastination tips, brought to you by Someone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... most important change while you're here. You're used to being right, being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... dismiss quickly. 5. You have freedom to choose your classes It is so cool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  the two sides of a heart to be even is about as easy as herding cats ... and swords than to make the hilt be a dragon?   [caption id ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... tunnels. Be confused when following the mysterious signs lead you to nowhere ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... stranger to read. Presenting myself in a way engineered to be likable had the ... Boston to Atlanta was delayed by three hours. This means I was going to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese ... , so I learned Shanghainese from being with her). When I first went to ... their parents’ culture, or wanted to be more  mainstream American. They

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... class. I'm even farther behind. To be able to keep up with problem sets in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... 't lost/confused about what you are supposed to be doing and when you are supposed to be doing it. But what do you do when you don't know what to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023