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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment ... unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to ... incredibly smooth; it’s going to be hard for the second leg to live up to this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  very, very little money for a family). Adding on to this is the fact ... commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  letter of admission and screaming to stepping foot on campus for the first ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... end. After the exam, I walked back to my room, chowing on a nice piece

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  were released. For instance, because audiences were not yet exposed to ... to some schools of direction). For the horror genre in particular, it’s not always possible to rely on solely the frames on screen to create

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the ... desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  cursing Hurricane Sandy for postponing my oral exam to 7:30am on my birthday ... rushed across Killian Court to vote for the first time. A girl standing on ... , took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or two things to talk about. So props to Snively for motivating me. But if ... mentality, I got on a plane to be back in my beautiful Chi Town!! I took the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I ... to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I ... calling to congratulate me on being accepted to MIT!!! zomg were they

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  other than my potential to do well at MIT. For a little while, I even ... mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their ... to the edge For those of you who like numbers, this year, MIT admitted

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  posters to advertise for the event Deep Talks with Shallow People. The event ... . (freshmen who came, I hope you haven't lost all your respect for me) On ... . As for general, BC-wide events, we had two virtual FLEX sessions on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  doing, but for a letter on paper that i believed would determine ... : learn for love of knowledge. and it's been working. i've come to terms ... i don't quite catch on to material as fast as everyone else. the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the ... confused at high speed than standing still for weeks on end. My 5 ... later than I ever wanted to. Today I flopped down on my bed, stated aloud

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... 're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel ... 'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  not need to rely on a desktop for hefty exports and renders. Once the ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... ="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0K3HYTHPgdfMquuCxf1jvJ"]Listen to rdng szn on Spotify

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . But on the contrary, everyone spoke to me the same way they spoke to ... on some level, which feels a bit strange. I guess, for most of my life ... balance. I wish to conduct myself in a mature manner at my workplace, for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to ... MUCH TO POST ABOUT. The musical came and went, I registered for The Most ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... significant time at all. "They're already on number 4 out of 5" I said to myself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  want to do later on.   For all these reasons, I'm sticking with ... ? Who knows. But for now, I can afford to spend my energy on impractical ... path for me, and I'm excited to be able to spend more time focusing on my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... , I go on calls on a quest to save the world.  I'm technically only in ... her, and she was calm when we brought her in on a stretcher to the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012