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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  or inspiration to have anything to say. But ah well, so it goes sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  important when it comes to social media. The second phase of the class is ... , is not always the way that it’s going to be. More and more things are ... is a really good way to do this. It’s something that makes you stand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  . MIT is not the academic utopia I imagined it to be.']MIT classes take so ... moments to step back and ask myself: What am I doing? Why am I doing it? Is ... should be more grateful. … It's such a privilege to be here. I'm really

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  release how I managed to do this because it is so embarrassing to my core ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... emotionally over with, so I'm not as scared to fail again. I know it's good to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the ... . We have not yet announced that date; please keep it tuned to the blogs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  . it's unclear how much of this is due to the actual news though—maybe part of it is just from finding better ways to deal with my anxiety ... : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  continuously tasting our rice as it cooks to ensure it is, in fact, cooking right. My balancing act is terrible, and it's easy to let anxiety take over ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

   tired. It is rather annoying to be both wired from coffee and simultaneously ... while writing these blogposts. Which is perhaps, inadvisable. Back to the ... -- tldr it was intro to writing and reading course. It was about as

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  probably already know what Maker Faire is, but if you don't it's basically a ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the ... called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  18 is a fine number, especially when it counts years. It's an excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... committee are mysteries to me, but if I had to hazard a guess, it'd be to Tim

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is ... advice is to make a list of the classes that you're interested in finishing ... . This semester I was able to make it to four presentation and it's mind

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  decided to watch just the final season, which is 26 episodes. it took me ... childhood anime, Inuyasha, is currently airing. when i heard about it back in ... is a total game-changer...guitar is such a wonderful way for me to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two ... amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a ... 's understandable, since math is what you need to understand old systems and build new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster ... Services is super great about sending emails to professors and letting them ... ; 4. The food is terrible   5. So bored. Bring art to play with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to ... and try to visit as many regions as possible to deliver presentations about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... says that it was great to have hands-on experience in the lab to ... Manned space exploration has been limited to fairly short missions to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  supposed to be, but i do think there is some truth to it - that by learning ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  't want to blog my chickens before they hatched. I GOT MY DREAM UROP! It ... interference, where siRNA is used to stop specific genes from being translated ... 've also developed nanoparticles to deliver the siRNA (although this is very

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006