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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  drop date forced me to really reflect on my life. Today, I finally made ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  adds so much value to your education and to your sanity at this place. I won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your ... Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  gets, I can always go home on breaks to an amazing meal cooked by my mom ... how to be a positive influence on the world every single day. (Editor ... week, and probably more frequently depending on how stressed out I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  helps pay to get your toy marketed. By this point we're all reeling ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... reflect on my MIT experience, to talk about what was most valuable to me ... before about how I feel weird when I storytell, trying to package my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  MIT, rather than work on your ability to recognize problems you already ... smart! That girl you have a crush on thinks your ability to derive is sexy ... problems are concerned with teaching you how to think, making you understand

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... introduced this post afterall. ANYWAY #6. Get Junot Diaz to sign my book ... Junot Diaz and I am going to get him to sign my book and holy moly I am

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  changes to a codebase on github."]PR[/annotation] to separate CKP logs by ... ."]cloudwatch logs.[/annotation] today, i'm going to continue working on that." i realize how foreign that sounded even to me just two weeks ago. it was a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... that I am entirely sure what that does to your body other than that it ... to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... into your work? Or in academia, how do you make sure your research will eventually benefit people? How does anyone ever get anything done? When I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  checking my messages. (for geographic reference, refer to how to find your ... did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... someone to ask you questions after your introduction. that class, i learned

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with ... even before getting here that emphasize how well-known it is. There are ... ’s all about feeding your curiosity and fundamentally learning to learn. As

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend ... grow as a dancer due to the pandemic, I wasn't really feeling being on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  a message if you're going to be there!) to cheer on Team 97 ... really need to go get caught up on work so I can have fun this weekend ... dangerous. Inviting anyone literate enoug to read a sticker on your shirt to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  once class was over. ;) See? You can get to know your TAs this well here ... Square this evening. They were second on stage; how amazingly surreal to ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them: Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... the lobster tank in the Chicago Meijer, wondering how on earth I had ... strangest details remain. We don’t get to choose what moments we forget, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2 research projects so i have no choice but to work a lot, and so on. but i ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  of actually solving the problems. (I also completely blanked on how to ... into the New Year, I want to wish all of you the best of luck on your ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007