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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it ... to do well on the next two exams, final, and psets for us to pass the ... where I probably wouldn’t be able to pass and should just drop it. I think

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... Chicago economist Steven Levitt. He received his PhD from MIT in 1994, and ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3 ... conversations, I found a group of people in Course 2 that I enjoyed talking to and ... to figure out what makes and how to make cut paper stronger than non

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  summer! Not long after and much to my surprise, we actually did end up at ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... halfway through, I was kind of tired and really looking forward to that ice

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from Harvard and MIT to go on a cross-country bike trip (Washington D.C. to San ... would have time to write, read, play music, be with myself, and be with a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... midnight.  At 8 pm, they go around and beg for candy from dorm desk workers: (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... I put my nose to the colloquial grindstone and burned through every ... my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... about the days where it feels like I'm trying to stand on water, and just ... my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  and enjoy Boston! There's so much to see and do, if art doesn't float ... . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... impressionism and symbolism to mid-century modernism." The twenty or so pieces by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... black and brown people I love to feel safe and beloved in their skin. We ... be brave enough, imaginative enough, and compassionate enough to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  ="Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science"]12.002,[/annotation] [annotation note="Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics"]12 ... interests and the classes I wanted to take spanned the two tracks. Since we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... quizbowler; I am objectively much worse at reading, writing, and speaking ... trivia or I didn't. There were competencies to meet and competitions to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn ... , population biology, structural biology, and much more! My branch is ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  to experience and I learned so much in this relationship. But for now ... place to settle down yet. And then one of my friends laughed loudly and ... be stupid and alone and I need to fuck up and I need to live on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  questions and he's been glad to oblige. He's not at all stuffy, though. One ... stops to answer them at length, and if she doesn't have time for a ... 't work very hard, but he's always willing to give us extra help and spend

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... Barry. Millennia later, we don't seem to have changed all that much. I ... occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... uncover the truth and beauty behind depriving ourselves of sleep to slog

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  racks to store your luggage and a scrolling neon sign announcing the next ... the terminal and the airlines that use that terminal.) You want to stay ... you don’t have to go there. A charitable and durable bus took you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe ... insecure about herself and needs to prove her worth to everyone around her by ... my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... international orientation started, I started meeting new people and going to most ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022