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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  : miraculously, it also happens to be enormously useful in understanding (certain ... to as many opportunities as you can. It's impossible to predict which ... With enrollment deadlines imminent, you can always use an extra

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  ?!” Needless to say I’m pretty excited about it so far. I think the unique thing ... understanding anything until I actually do it, so it’s refreshing to have that ... afterward and forgetting how to quite approach it. Getting that practice is

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because people were reluctant to choose a place in the past, but luckily it ... get to watch your work and say what they love or hate about it. Rarely ... Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... . DID YOU KNOW? It was originally planned to inscribe the names of several ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  students can choose to go to any available MedLink for help. When Med ... most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there ... - you can up the Sudafed to 2 30mg pills every six hours, and I suggest

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  if you get there early you can buy a used copy. Also, it's been my ... Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of my friends said she spent $700 on books already...we can find used

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  seems very good and I am willing to practice physics. I used to avoid it ... , I used it to rob a bank [holds up NERF gun he designed] then it ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... explicitly designed as such, I like to use CourseRoad as a quasi-MIT simulator ... answering questions like: Is it possible to graduate without ever writing a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  . Some folks acted quickly to make Matt and me aware of it, as well as ... DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can ... engage with people enough to learn their language despite hearing it almost

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  to use!" which rapidly degraded into "But I need to set up a server somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off ... or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a ... , garnering small bits about what it takes to build a successful company from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  still have all these matches to play! Using what I know now, I can make ... guest post series* Theory: If we were to use the World Cup as an analogy ... heavily invested during soccer matches; it’s a fact. I can barely stay still

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  mini-laptop, and an entertainment center. It's rarely used in the method ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... really hard to refine my Japanese ability (so I can keep up with the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I ... on Independence Day every year. He very kindly offered to take myself ... least now, I can use a screwdriver without stripping the screw and use a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  this year, one that I wrote about it in the “我没去过北京/I Have Never Been to ... cultures. It took, and continues to take, a lot of time and energy--I may ... , it can be a little depressing--like you don’t really have a particular

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015