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• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  grade for the second midterm. cue instant panic and regret mode...and let ... and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I lose depth. We cook for each other in our apartment, and everyone ... did not read them all in the hours between 12 am and 3 -- feeling rebellious for staying up so late, although I do not know who I was rebelling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , memorabilia, and snacks for college away in my mom’s Kia Rio as the dynamic duo ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  , but it is also mutual-- you care for others, and they care for you. In ... , really. Home is what I am studying for. I carry it in my values and work ... you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  new, but I just don't think it was the right thing for me to do in the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  spent his childhood building robots for FIRST Team 1710 in Olathe, KS ... blogger Rachel. He once auditioned for American Idol, where the girl in ... over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  learned that a spot had been reserved for me in both classes. Writing ... write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  " programming languages. In spite of this, 6.001 had a very strong reputation for ... conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... Caltech, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the inorganic chemistry ... exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  speak at Math Prize for Girls, a competition for top female students in ... ignite. For many years, the only LinkedIn profile I had was a joke ... Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  what pass/no-record will be for you. Personally, I've always believed in ... This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... 'm getting back in the swing of things. Sending you all strength and luck for ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the ... other things going for me in my application, so I was just wondering if ... , "In Romania when one applies for college one knows the lowest grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  ? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  for the undergrad. ii. I started writing this blog in the fall, when ... a CI-M for both 20 and 6, so I’m knocking out two requirements in one ... tells me about the time he signed up for a nutritional deficiency study in

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... shell. I had developed a real confidence in my self for the first time in ... people in my home city. People that had been living there for ages, but

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  in. I barely wrote during the spring, save for my intensive writing ... dropped UPOP in the spring semester. UPOP is a career accelerator for ... career, and I did not have it in me to wake up for 3 days straight at 9 am

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  keep in my bag for emergencies like these. After a forty-minute train ... been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications, and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013