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• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... required of all Course VIers, but it's going to be phased out in the next few ... like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... that if I didn’t plan out my life, I was being complacent. But you can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  subject I never took in high school, and merely passed freshman fall. I can ... Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school ... work ends Yes! Can still sleep for X hours (+ extra 10 minutes if I skip ... research in Cambridge feels a lot more relaxed, and also because I

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... classes I was interested in/ones that fulfilled requirements, I signed up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  both cornerstones of my experience in Taipei last summer. i got this ... dozens of these sometime early in the year, so i grabbed 3(rd) and put them ... our floor's massive merch order that came sometime in IAP. i bought a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can ... adept at sniffing out the applications that lack substance. In short, I ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  with such excitement that I can't help but be excited, too. In high ... some, I feel as if I've finally learned to love in full. I can think of ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal ... about a test that I ended up not being in the right state of mind (let ... I can call her mine and she can call me hers. Call me the crazy cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even ... dumb. I can’t swim. When I was little, I took swim classes at the ... ’m 6’ 4”. I can touch the bottom of every pool I get into. I haven’t been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  this one in particular, I used canned salmon and broccoli because it was ... circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and unprecedented, but I hope you can read and enjoy nonetheless Ever since I moved

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of ... in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  though I'd say that...). Living in Maseeh, I pretty much just rolled out of ... 'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... firehose? Well, this semester I can definitely attest to that. My course load

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... biology can try out their own random idea and just see what happens. I think

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  .03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate ... in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... to take part in C-Show last year. I did this year though! This year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  horrible, I went out in the midst of a November thunderstorm. It was raining ... . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  I spent most of my days Chillin’ out maxin’ taking life real slow Just ... finally understood I had to get out of my neighborhood I got into one little ... master’s at UMD and now I’m a Terrapin If anything, I can say that this

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  at once that you can't get anything out. It's like you have 500000x ... are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most ... honest, I could try to write about everything that has happened in this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  available. I also wish that in general, they had come out a bit more ... 'm happy with how my door came out. You can certainly tell I'm not the most ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022