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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information ... to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... different culture around sprinklers. At least most of us do -- the fenced

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  amount of time at the pool table in Simmons, the pool table in Random, as ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... rest of my academic career at MIT, one memory stands out particularly ... It's official: my first semester at MIT is over. After finishing four

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  be overcome if you’d “give me a month.” We’d offer consolations of “you ... weeks, I was kind of on top of things. I slept at a reasonable time. I ... with the number of activities happening at all times). I was attempting

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  taking 6.145 at the time and I wasn't sure I could handle the commitment of ... 'm tired of skirting around this. One of my biggest regrets at MIT is not ... one of my floormates at the time, who often said she felt locked in by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can't promise you an amusing survey, I can provide you an account of WHY we are ... my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  really make something of that time? "MIT 09er who's not at ISEF" wrote ... capable not just of doing the work at MIT but capable of much greater things ... that. In fact, most of my friends at MIT were like me -- no HS research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  about pika. This is all about food at pika. This is a picture of pika

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  . At MIT a student's financial aid package consists of a combination of ... observe the following rules: Part ways at the beginning of the program ... DISCLAMER: Again I must inform students that this post is directed at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  front of a trolley tour bus that was loading up its passengers at the time ... the previous locations are grouped close to one another at the heart of ... little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of

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

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... special event at the Broad this week. Many of you know of Tracy Kidder ... of Dr. Paul Farmer on public health in Haiti. On Friday Oct 20 at 3pm

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge, and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  , there’s also the joy of teaching! At MIT, we see countless posters, emails ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... section of Singapore. I had been really guilty about not devoting enough

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... , many of you may be plagued with logistical travel and planning issues

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  pretty amazing dancers here, especially breakers, so I had a lot of fun at ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could ... . There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  At some point at the end of last summer, I volunteered for an FLI ... factor. At the end of the fall semester, 034 had a website where they sold ... After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022