Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has ... ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  can't tell anyone!” he quipped, with a level of humor which can only ... Hey, there, it's been a while. Sorry about that; it turns out that blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... worse than running river water. So, you can't just have a giant rain ... family in our village, Warwara, which didn’t have any water when I was a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... after a bit, that commotion died down, And I went back to physics and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is ... attending this year. If you haven't yet registered (via your MyMIT account ... Rockwell Cage (W33). This event is a lot of fun, and you'll see many familiar

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  . Looking at the menu I saw a half-pound burger with bacon, but I wasn't sure ... It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  less “let’s make a spreadsheet”, but more like, “hey, why don’t we go ... acute accent’ joke, as a reference to our previous joint post, but I won’t ... make a path. This is where Alan will point out that I’m very bad at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my ... . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a ... interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  which they award points. Students don't just see a total score – they see ... : Request: Hi, I'm writing to request a regrade on Problem 1.2. I got points ... Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  ’s window and a “MIT Mom” sweatshirt. Yep, I’m ... by Donald Guy’s Mom Almost exactly one year ago, on a Junior ... pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your ... see what happens. “Just see what happens, Mom? I have a plan for this ... how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years, and besides F=MA and watching my teacher set his hair on fire I don't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  i wrote about every time i had a major update and felt like i wasn’t ... those things aren’t what you need right now and as a result you are never ... try things you shouldn’t do and then realize that you made a mistake

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  )). I don't want to go into too much detail here, because it's a whole new ... (I'm impressed!), this is indeed Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  Top Crowdfunds $1m+ A few months back I discovered the Geek And Sundry Youtube ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... a few of his celebrity friends and play a new Board

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  them, but when they don’t, they complain. A successful transport network ... /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... my past two summers were spent in a variety of locales (take advantage

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  Long didn’t seem to notice, though.” "A conversation with our host ... IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014