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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  failures. Once you reap the rewards of perfectionism though, it's hard to ... CS major was. I think it would've taken me much longer to reach that ... to eat shit when it does get served so I can move on and work towards

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... player, once said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like ... Jedi mind tricks). You start to feel like you need to do everything and ... lifetime. Get ready to embrace it. Much love, A reluctantly, soon-to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  needed to be. I've always very much been a more-about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate ... … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  into MIT, and if I do, I need a place to buy inexpensive yet quality home ... have already sent in a form detailing how much of that you plan to earn and how much you plan to borrow. (But don't worry, those numbers are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  ? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to ... internships. And, once I knew I liked research, I was able to practice research ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out ... 'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... , why am I writing this post? Why am I sharing it to you, rather than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  failures repeatedly does not mean that one should simply give up—learning to ... to paint, and once I had that idea the Keith Haring-ish vibe just ... aside substantial chunks of time to destress and that it made me much

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... /visiting the dorms?" I found the official policy here. Students are allowed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  , email. there are resources and people for your help and you just need to ... are so many different people who make sure it continues the way it does. I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  Truck Guy, much to the chagrin of my wife Steph C ’15). [carousel image1 ... few weeks to introduce radiation heat transfer to my physics students ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key ... technology and techniques needed to do that work. But Lander is not one of ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  , does that count as networking?   This summer I also traveled to ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  Max Richter's Sleep album and catch up on some much-needed sleep to ... minutes, I tried to write down as much as I could praying for pity and partial credit. Once that was out of my life, I had to switch gears quickly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  K. '18 has (almost) all the logistic info you need to have an ... Campus" and then "Kendall" and worked out where I needed to go. (I needed ...  hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  there's so much competition, everyone's just trying to shove as much as ... 's pretty much open to anyone as long as you have a gym membership. As for ... things at once because all you have to worry about is whether you want an A

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  soon since I convinced my brothers to apply for Spark in March. Once I ... Comm2017 website is currently under development and needs to be ready soon, so I've been trying to catch up with my much more competent partner on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015