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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... mechanics, and I didn’t spend as much time in the lab as I should have because

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a ... Problems... Admissions Is Not One" 52 things not to do. Chris: Notes on the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  )...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller ... (as in, here, lol, not the picture - the pic is from 18.02 =p) One ... to do well in them, but if you don't do the psets, then you can't do

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

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  , but the irony is most people live in the watery areas. Austin is lush ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... the transition from high school to college much smoother and allows ... just got to come to find out. The Tunnels The MIT tunnel system is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... in Maryland, building cameras for telescopes. The woman to my right ... . The first speaker is Josh Shiode. Josh has a PhD in astronomy from UC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  to know what the place actually looks like. Right. So here it is ... on the slide and jump in to save two different kids. So that's my job ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... can change paths, though sometimes the path you want to take lies in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ... having creative power is something I value in whatever things I decide to ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  -America accolades, the most in the program's history. Schannon was a First-Team selection in both the free and air events. Michael Horvath was named to the ... play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  is forming giant brown-black polymers akin to bread crust in the 250 C ... , in conclusion, Chemical Engineering at MIT is the most perfect major at ... output and composition of the products. Our work is not so much theoretical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  see the various dorms and what life is like in them. Does he have to ... is across the bridge in Boston: he's coming a long way to get the feel ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to ... correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake ... , but I vowed to make the most of the experience; I decided to kickstart

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  in the housing lottery, REX would have given me the chance to change my ... DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to ... to take the time to evaluate where I was in each of these two classes

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just ... putting together the event for us. Most of them came in from London, which ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we ... what we wanted to learn. Even though the skill is most likely pretty ... you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  attitude with work in the past, see e.g. there is no such thing as a typical ... , of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... roofdeck. East Campus has its courtyard in which the grass refuses to grow ... , is all leading up to the observation that the geographical environment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021