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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  lot. Next to every building is a deep groove in the concrete caused by ... was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... Atlantic rainforest. REGUA is part of the Atlantic rainforest. Most of this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  is way too much data for the human brain to process. Levinthal is also ... the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  brings us to the number 42. According to Wikipedia: "42 (forty-two) is the ... Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... looovve In the Heights so much - it's such a beautiful show about a Hispanic

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  pretty much the same: after all, flowers were finally starting to bloom en ... goal for the event was to see which prefrosh could name the most women ... Bloggers: This was so much fun! All the bloggers got together to hang out

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  . The essay collection I started this summer and brought to MIT with me is ... favorite ideas that I've come across in the collection is the rejection of ... have much to learn from the world around us. My friends and I joke that

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  – and in the most respectful way possible, it felt awesome to eat away ... so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... right places in the body. So some of the research on drug delivery is essentially figuring out ways to coat drugs to sneak past the mucus in your body

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  will most definitely melt due to my egregious lack of chill) the truth ... . no longer would i fall prey to the Hellish Void that is YouTube—i’d do ... be “mindless” in order to be ~my most productive self~. when i got

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  else. I hope this a reminder that, even when your nose is to the ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year ... points. Unlike in math when you just set the derivative equal to zero, the ... going to bed is better than continuing to study? When will the benefits of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... one of the most fundamental questions any scientist can ask: What is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as ... floor competed over who served the most ice cream. Today, in a minute, we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not only do the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  labs breaking ground in topics I was excited to work on in most of the ... a better engineer. The question, then, is how much of this I want to ... fantastic, the sort of dream you never dare to dream. The only question is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  major path that is most common in the department, and that I am also doing ... -majoring is out of the question.   With all that in mind, I went into ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking ... ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... , with medical school acceptances in hand, ready to begin the next chapter ... lab this past semester (and having to walk back to the dorm in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  punchline is that to call myself gratuitously lucky would be understating the ... understanding from the fabric of the universe is like pretending to be a salmon ... One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009