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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

   social issues unheard   We then drafted up our problem statement that would guide us for ... for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... group originally came up with some solution to disparities and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  to give up and not even apply for the host lottery. This might not seem ... long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  my experience for this summer in a methodological way, and I ended up ... I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I ... , beating up on myself just makes things worse. Sometimes the best thing to do

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  gotten 4 hours of sleep the previous night. I hauled my butt up in time for ... right[/caption] I made up for the lack of public speaking with the poster ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim ... pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  guilt for staying up late. So, tentatively, I will keep pushing forward ... events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  bit of a stretch, because I’m still catching up on the lectures for 8 ... ="meaning, the actual things that ate up my life for a month"]good stuff ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  to open up my laptop for a bit. i see a tour group forming and hear a ... take a nap. i end up staying in next house for the rest of the day ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  ’d planned for 12 supports, we ended up with 6… close enough? When we ... , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  entice more callers, Ben kept upping the ante. First, for $50, Ben would ... it be? Yes, another ticket up for grabs! I claimed it 1 minute after it ... perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  made up for by the energy conserved from reducing torque; some scientists ... recommend it i should also mention that there are other means for commuting ... ground when you take a step. not just for the purposes of walking faster

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  enough - couldn’t wait for classes to start. Not for the homework or the lectures, but for the routine that came with them. I wanted my Google ... . Ironically, that craving for structure is exactly how every Groundhog Day

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pumping up again. We had a crash out, we were melodramatic for a minimum of ... . 2. Recalculate Your Entire Grade For some reason, this is always urgent despite the grade not being finalized for months. Start making a Google

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  that the chains are tangled too deeply and I ultimately give up until I ... from something I know is good for me, but I know it is not what I need ... was 14. I haven't been alone in life for longer than three months in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... nothing they could do, so I luckily found replacement pit tickets for $80

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  , checking for sign errors or gaps in understanding. This is not my favorite ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the ... , because by then it’s late and we’re all a little hosed, longing for more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  up a post every day from today until Friday, totaling 7 days in honor ... classes I took and reflect on how much I wound up liking them in the context ... -tier because I either didn't particularly care for the class format, or the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021