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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less ... out ahead, depending on whatever was most convenient. It was something ... ?) getting better grades than you? It's enough to make you feel like maybe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  I'm forgetful when it comes to packing. Thanksgiving break, I forgot ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... , a secret base, an HQ. Personalize it and make it unique to you. Also

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  planning. In thermo, something's "free energy" is related to its enthalpy ... inability to do work). It is shown in the following equation that haunts high ... it doesn't need energy to happen, and vice versa. Sometimes you want ΔG

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  seemed to think it was kind of pathetic, actually.) I even took to writing ... pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  : Summit Ruth: The first half means "to aggregate" and the second half is ... running the realization that it's way too cold to be outside wearing only ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  Hockfield: Other attendees (according to my handy RSVP list; it was too ... is, of course, chocolate. Lots of it. Including a yummy chocolate ... festivities. All that chocolate has given me great energy to continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to ... it here. But maybe this, challenging myself to learn, is also part of ... was cheaper to buy groceries or just eat three-euro [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  perfection. If you think about it, the CPU inside your computer is basically ... post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three ... could only shift away from wasteful incandescent light bulbs to energy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  , which is linked from your MIT ID card. When you want to buy some food ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  convenient times to travel, but being an MIT student can make it pretty hard to ... back to Roman times, and its architecture is a breathtaking blend of ... just goes to show how important it is to look beyond just your own

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  ), just listening to the soundtrack or watching other people play it talking to a friend with more sense than me, which, as it happens, is most ... , universal sunsets, but only when it's not freezing cold outside like it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  leaving your entire p-set untouched till the night before it’s due is ... habits die hard: all efforts to convince my body to forgo its established ... you want to hear about or see, ask me questions, buy me tickets to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  you go to college without it? 18.03 Book Mmmmmmm, Differential ... Technology Review. The manuscript book is for scratch work on PSETS. How to ... because I was using it today. I think everything else is present.

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  , soon enough it’s on to the next world: MIT. Is anyone (ever) ready? Like ... decided to start something. This one’s about how jaded I am about buying ... things. O.....KAY Anyways, It’s hard to believe tomorrow's August! There

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  . # When it comes to pen and paper of any sort, imposing order is a fruitless ... , modern me stepping in, how interesting it is that this is when I learned to ... smells of wine, how long it takes to build a fire. (Although there is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to ... carcasses in my blog, isn't it? MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Science is AWESOME! ... DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  . Now consider New College in Oxford, which is 620 years old and gets its ... . This cellular delivery system is at work all day, every day to keep you ... of England, which makes it really easy to take weekend trips to London

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009