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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  invited three MIT alums to be the panelists - Berta (Matt's friend, from '00 ... , if you had to choose only one person to hug or to chat, who would it be ... the most difficult to hug would be yourself, and thus I would probably

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  system which is meant to estimate the number of hours you’re intended to be ... experiment was meant to uphold. Even if it was the same material, moving from ... additional challenges of this lab proved to be much more difficult than the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  details may be specific to Plaz, the overarching message - time management ... successful. If I forgot something, I had easy access to my room. The area was ... was the night before the final. I wanted to be prepared as I could be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  360's. So don't let anyone tell you being smart doesn't pay off. And if ... don't have the money to send me, so I join the Navy and convince the ... , participate in a week-long introduction to the Navy, and on August 28th I take

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... , sometimes to get [annotation note="Framingham has the largest Brazilian ... call my virtual critters in the OTHER Nintendo-affiliated Niantic game

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  anonymous interview scenario, readers don’t know if the reporter is just be ... might be too technical for the general public to ever understand why this ... carelessly and always runs the risk of being hacked or leaked, leading to scams

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  asked if my parents had forced me to be there. It was quite the opposite ... shift to match the student? How can I tell if someone understood me? I ... the COVID-19 situation was being handled much better than in the states

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  , and if possible, talk to those in the industry when you can (most people ... separate time spent to think or perform calculations, and sometimes if the ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  year through sophomore year. I understand what it's like to be failing ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to hold me and if I did alright on the 2nd test and the final I would be ok

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  -A grades are not the only ways to be successful (props to you if you are ... to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... questions to let everyone else in the class know how smart they are. They

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  I learned and the grades I earned. But If I went to more lectures ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  anything extra for MIT phones to receive outside calls, and the problem was ... 's gonna be due back on the 29th!" Sometimes you're asked to make movie ... . Then there are the rare occasions when you'll have to handle a stray

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  calls you to yell at you over the phone! Even if you tell yourself you ... appropriate if I was listening to the song right now, but I'm actually bouncing ... how you vow to reinvent yourself, you will still be yourself at the end

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to ... and calls from my friends. Kathryn had taken the T to the train station ... might not be the best way to go." she said. "It could run late. You should

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  going to lie: I’m failing pretty badly. Still, I can’t stop smiling. The upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  handle. But gods forbid if I'm supposed to face, head-on, the actual flaws ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly ... holding myself back, if I'm afraid of showing myself off to the world fully

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  and many others) called “How MIT Learns” was posted to the admissions ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still ... daily)   1. Introduce a General Concept. If you’re supposed to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... charge of the subject will be notified when an O is changed to an OX. An OX ... the future, at which point the OX mark will disappear to be replaced

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , would be able to handle anything (Boston was designed for horses and never ... to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn't exactly ideal. But that's how scheduling works sometimes... the schools call

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  '12, not to be outdone, responded to the above by building a “short ... -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009