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  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  Friday (🎉🎉🎉), but then I have to give my full attention for 1.5 hours ... as follows: 7.06 - Cell Biology  This is the last class I have to ... ] 7.06) before I can move on to upper-level bio electives! So far, the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  here all my life, and I know next to nothing about American football. The ... sticker. A very simple introduction to both teams: Alabama: Called the ... are indoctrinated into a team before they're able to make a conscious

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my ... assignments and grades and class materials, similar to schoology ... for time management, and so had not attempted to download the practice

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order ... last year from my dorm in the west side of campus to my classes in the ... try to make it to each lab session every friday afternoon. for a class

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old ... recorded when I was talking to my parents about college decisions. To spare ... about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level ... stuck in a loop, constantly going back and trying to find a better

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to mingling, shouting to be heard over the music.  We went from that house to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... pointed MIT out to us, so I knew it was close, but I didn’t know it was that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that you have to stop and lose that heat and start all over. But then, when I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year ... the arts. At one point, I mentioned I had always wanted to try

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot ... where the boat leaves and returns to. And the MIT Ethiopian ... enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I ... underclassman excitement, feeling tired and cynical, not bothering to remind

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor ... intimidated by the great scholar. Just last week the king had stood up to honor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... deadline, you are fine for EA. Storm: Due to the devastating snowstorm that ... still require you to submit the application by the normal deadline, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior ... opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term ... exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008