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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago ... and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student ... was the eldest child, so I was making things up as I went along. I knew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  finished studying and went to bed. I woke up this morning at 8 for a 9 o ... building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day). After working for 3 hours I decided to study for my 18.03 test that I had

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  Now that term has geared up a bit, most classes have given some sort ... component of sphingomyelin, is part of the cellular lipid bilayer. For ... connectivity. 5. a) Draw Newman projects for the six energy maxima and minima

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me ... ’s a discussion for a different blog."]five[/annotation] classes this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance ... respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... 'll take." It seemed a little bold for this quiet introverted type guy. But

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  bothering it and I wonder what it’s been up to and whom it is working for ... What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer ... whose papers I read for class and whose writing and clean, minimalist

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track for a full recovery! Since then, I have been pitching in where I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... . after all, we’ve only barely known each other for two and a half months ... think, but you can’t force people to talk. so i wait for something to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and ... drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college ... . Not to mention having to keep up with school and other responsibilities

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We ... their neighborhoods and surroundings for data analysts all over the world ... with the circumstances you are in and create for yourself. My social

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed out about applying to grad school. [annotation note="please"]Vote for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... preferences of the royalty. Each group came up with their own method, some ... cafeterías to this type of initiative are role-models for the rest of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . JSF is an IAP program sponsored by the French department for students ... exclusively en français. (Forgive me, Professor Perreau, for writing this post ... ("urban furniture" for lack of a better term)--the streetposts, bus stops

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... we have to be back earlier than most (official IAP doesn’t start for ... mention that it’s been cold here? When I went home for a week after finals

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad ... 've been helping with through my UROP at the center for civic media ... -described "poet of code") joy buolamwini's grand-prize-winning video for the "search

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic ... judged for quoting HMS Pinafore in this person's presence? Would this be a ... up my face in a ridiculous manner? (That last one has worked a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other ... span of just a few years. The gathering also got me really pumped me up ... out your hair while doing PSets? It's a good thing that my very job for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014