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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the other bloggers have been blogging a lot, too!). To returning readers ... skills (though that definitely improved a lot too). It was the ability to ... like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  had a stress-free beginning to summer. :) Picture-time~ My ... . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... temporary housing business. So when everything converged to a single

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  so much to say, but even writing in a journal seems difficult. all ... a loss of them and because i have so much to say. in a more detail ... the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  ]tendency to denote energy leaving a system as positive is, shall we say, foolish ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  , despite his reservations, Mills applies to MIT anyway. Much to his surprise, he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... that his actions became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Afraid to fail

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  's pointless to put a lot of effort into things, and summoning up the energy to ... least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone ... have to begin treatment within a few days of symptom onset / a positive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  it all went smoothly. Then, we got ready to take a much needed break ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... willing to hold out a hand when people were falling behind or needed help

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

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  to the rooms, so this creates a pretty different atmosphere. Those ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  done this a couple times). We need each other to survive at MIT. 4. Exams ... ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy ... M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students discussing energy over beers at a campus bar. Today it has 600-plus members who

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  feeling though, a feeling that told me not to worry too much about it, so I ... months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  because I don't want to sound like too much of a shill, but it also does Optical Character Recognition as it does this! how cool."]directly to a PDF ... there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... had a freshman backpack.) I try to let that roll off my shoulders

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  something is much higher than simply hearing a no. If I invest time and energy into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... bizarre. The worst thing that can happen is much worse than a simple no. Don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  well-being far too much to be a workaholic, and I value a connection to ... few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that ... doing much of anything isn't nearly as bothering to me as it is to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... admissions process here at MIT, and we talk about it a lot. But what does it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011