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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I haven't chosen yet, and things will be very different. Of course, it'll be ... MIT, and I thought, "OK, NOW I won't be the smartest kid in the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  going to lie: I’m failing pretty badly. Still, I can’t stop smiling. The ... , I really don’t regret being late. Caving Club was the most fun I’d had ... , and a D pr lower (which would be a failing grade) doesn't show up on any

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of the semester, we were thrown into the darkroom. It might as well be a time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... thing MIT has taught me, it’s that failing doesn’t have to be forever. In ... freaked out (I’d be fooling nobody if I told you I wasn’t the slightest bit

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  livestream itself here, so I will focus more on the 2.009 experience as a ... show how important being on the same page would be for our team. Not ... semester would be fraught with drama? I was already getting the sense that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  period is over and in 15 minutes, the projects will be open for viewing by ... on the back for being masters of internet sleuthing. Equipped with ... direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  details may be specific to Plaz, the overarching message - time management ... failing. I had done ok in the semester, failing or barely passing most tests ... building,E15, was now mostly vacant. I decided that my old lab would be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  course. But just being aware of the perils of group work made a large ... .  Be direct when you think something is shoddy, and be willing to take ... just Java) and made this: Blue/yellow circles will flash on the foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  me see all the leaves rolling in the wind, I don't know where I will ... time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the ... imagining what it would be like to fly the same course. We learned a lot. We

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  of saying, 'go to class,' my advice will be as follows: pick classes ... . Maybe someday I will. With over 2,500 blog entries, you might think that finding the information you're looking for is like searching for magnetic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  let it be known that I really hate multi-part problems. The time is 2 ... by Walter Lewin on neutron stars, and now much more of it will be spent ... backlight, (not to be confused with) the background light. Key light is the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... fit your 7 free t-shirts back into your luggage post-CPW, I will be ... to look at a design and be like, “I made that. And it will change

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  to it, but it will be coming soon. Sorry for the delay, I know I ... not. It would be so much easier if the number of qualified applicants ... written a letter which will be published this week in your MyMIT account

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  junk that your roommate will throw out. For the frugal soul, salvation ... ); take and post”. Without fail, someone within 20 minutes will have adopted ... successfully retrieved, will lead to the sort of stories that you will someday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  the endless amount of questions I have about this world. To be given ... of the resources better. Though to be fair to me, MIT doesn’t do the ... [annotation note= "maybe that's the flex. I don't care, and I'll still be richer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  'optional'. Does this mean that it will not be considered as much as the ... , but you can be confident that all materials will be placed in the proper ... post it to my blog so that others will benefit from the answer. If your

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  25% of the final grade! (The other 25% being psets.) This test will also be in Walker, and of the four tests this is the one where I think I ... ’re apparently low-stress enough to be called “quizzes,” even though the one on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  that there must be something super-cool at the bottom of it, we climbed ... the top, we saw 301…302…303…”No,” I thought, “It couldn’t be…314?” But ... , student life, culture, etc), available online. Perhaps that will be helpful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  favour. The moment you submit those applications, everything will be over ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will ... that you wanted to be more academic and rigorous, and failing your first

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  apartment-hunting is contingent upon my being in the Boston area after June. I ... 't be accepted, and I've been afraid of putting myself out there on the ... 've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010