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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to ... written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of it is supposed to make me feel okay about not knowing what I ... my summer at home, and that it would be nice to make some money. The ... thought it’d be nice to have a little more runway throughout the school year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  me and adapted to it. Liking said reality is not required. In grad ... was alive to witness it. And the current fear, anxiety, and uncertainty ... 2020 might as well have been October 2001 – wasn’t it just going to be as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  ; it was the residence of the Russian emperors and is now the home to the ... then I found this postcard at some bookshop and knew I had to buy it. A ... the New York Botanical Garden. This is actually my newest addition to my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  students know how frustrating it is to be sick or hosed or generally ... it was due to the first two semesters being virtual. And sophomore year ... hours later practically unable to speak from a sore throat. So, it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... harder than it looks. :) Each unit is supposed to be equivalent to one hour ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  portability advantage over my DSLR that it's hard not to use it constantly. Ah ... yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  , making it a little hard to actually hear, but I appreciated the energy ... class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  ring is known as the Brass Rat. Why? Because it is made of gold and ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first ... class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  has helped a little. Aditya is right, it's hard to get straight answers ... , headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  [annotation note='The MIT Museum is scheduled to open in spring 2022.']new ... option, by far, is to drive to campus. The traffic is very bad, the roads ... underground garage, and other public lots in Kendall Square, it is very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... is also taking the class and we were able to test-run each other ... , in between classes and p-sets, it seems to be all I want to do, and at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  of material to cover, and this is a CI-M; but it seems convoluted and ... on any given day. I find this quite stressful as it requires you to ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... masculinity. I reread my application essays to see if something gave it away. B ... meetings. It's a great way to start off the week. How are your Mondays? Mine

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  temperature it is equally "frozen" whether or not it was heated and quenched to get there. It seems to me that the villain should be frozen prior to the ... thermal energy is available (kT), and less as the temperature is lowered

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  to it all is that it gives me no shortage of things to blog about over ... top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that it would be a really good idea to write a post. My dentist doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  ="aligncenter" width="750"] Poisson image editing — it's hard to tell but the "WOW" is in ... Tom Cruise and wrote a 20-page script based on it. The final script is ... Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  to design or machine parts or whatever it is they do. Ditto computer scientists. What is it actually like to program all day? DO computer scientists ... energy crisis, you win. The path to getting respect is: work really hard on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... think about it is that factcheckers try to minimize the number of errata ... about puzzle ideas is that they aren't cheap. That is to say, it's easy to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  enjoy it as well! ________________________ Hi, guys! My name is Haley ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... is my least favorite way to teach, but I needed to teach students basic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016