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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... wanted to show you it all: the silly, the poignant, the ones that I really ... it rains and I get to wear my rain boots When it rains and I get to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... to the octave. It's stepping a toe outside of what you know, and then ... trying to do differently this time around. It took Elsa bravery to trust

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  ' post, but then it stopped being brief, so I decided to post it here ... , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... technically be considered correct. Neha '10 still uses it sometimes. It's one of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it ... , but it turned out that the class was designed to teach people how to ... students, depending on if it’s a bad week and people decide not to show up

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in ... , along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  've been involved with the Game Lab and VR@MIT before, so it was exciting to ... film producer. Jeez that's a lot of accomplishments, Riz. I can't wait to ... though, I only got to try one of them. Still, it was exciting to see a lot

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  , the upside-down-lounge. I can't wait to see what the hackers will come ... adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas ... -acquired physics/astronomy/calculus/programming skills to calculate its orbit. That ... that it took TWO BLOG POSTS to describe (here and here). Summer 18

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to get used to this new paradigm. IAP was as fun as it was tumultuous. I ... good! I'm actually thriving, and I owe it all to my roommates and my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  --photographs dating back to 1916, Sport Death memorabilia, old yearbooks. It would ... a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial ... makes MIT unique, and it's disappointing (to me, at the very least) how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  schools. Have you decided which school to attend in the fall? D: No. But it really doesn’t matter to me. I’ll make it work wherever I go. I’ll just go ... if you go to the cheapest college and then find out that it is not the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... ’re in a space too big to explore all of it.  Before entering any crowds ... . Strangers offer to put you on their shoulders when you can’t see over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  Simmons offer made-to-order stirfry, so you can "have it your way" without ... cases) have it delivered to our doors. One can also buy groceries on Tech ... I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  can just cut the top off a store-bought pineapple and put it in dirt and ... morphological chip on its shoulder about the whole thing. It's a useful reminder ... different; maybe I just needed to grow. I also can't really explain why I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  , essentially, that you could use in place of antiseptics/antibiotics to prevent ... episodes... Let me know if you guys have questions about what it's like to ... Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... battle session, it was almost dawn, so we decided to watch the sunrise ... day, I was pleased to note that it was 6 am, and a whole day lay ahead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to ... thought it would be funny to put 8.02 (E&M) and Course 9 in a blender

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  goes well, this mouse model can be used to create a therapy for influenza ... years ago, researchers noticed that pieces of RNA could be used to degrade ... and embryonated chickens. My research is part of a project to use these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put thought to (digital) paper. Before this semester, I was finding it very

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022