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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  complicated problems. I chickened out of - or did poorly - in most of the very ... , and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Javert in Les Miserables. Had I let my hair grow out the whole time, it ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... shoot me an email, and I can forward it on to her. Watch the videos! You

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i ... Pia Lindman. Check it out. Finally today in videos from across the web ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... ; I had an awesome, well-thought-out plan, and look how that turned out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  about living in Macgregor next year, but I have a question. I know everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  I can’t bring my laptop or a book to bed unless I want it to fall out ... .) Clocky is especially nice combined with my loft. I can’t leave it in my bed ... , and only if I had time to pick it out in the morning. At the start of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  . As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  or barrage through. i can really see my strength in this environment ... fever you can't sweat out and i've learned to appreciate the lyricism and ... living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  (and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... , unfortunately.  Ukulele: I got a ukelele in the second half of 2020 and really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  out of that (18.02, which is what I'm taking now, you smartie), you can ... problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  could’ve had to gain experience in programming. It's a pain, but I can ... chat with him about what I can do to get the most I can out of 6 ... fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  , and I can't quite figure out whether it's a me thing or a brain thing ... . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... of my friends are in it, so when they came out, I accosted them, and ... In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  bloggers can do that for you in the comments. For now, I’ll just tell you ... lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... something along those lines. I can’t remember the exact wording, because I was

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving ... a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  I took our advisees out to Toscanini's, the best ice cream business in ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... -unit class as a fifth class so that I could get a HASS requirement out of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014