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• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a problem that have specific properties for you to minimize and maximize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list, asking us to apply for the[annotation note="Residence EXploration ... scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... involving education for kids, public policy, and using media to effectively ... for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to ... ), Next Sing, to name a few. [annotation note="i was also a desk worker for ... mentors to my naive frosh self, and constantly looking for ways to improve

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include ... broke the other day, and I went down to Wheelworks and hung out for 45 ... . Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  building 56 Athena cluster to check email and print readings for classes ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start ... was looking for criticisms, as the paper is due to be published soon

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than ... senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  features: There are so many lists online about things to consider for college ... doing it — “just be more rational”. but it is human for us to value these kinds of things, and it is better for us to be aware of them, rather than

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... ? You don't want your art to be that person. Go for it.” This applies not ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ’s response to Austin. Sofia Campos: “Reaching for our dreams of our ... to brainstorm ideas for how to reach that kind of transformation and ... are a lot more people who want to reach for that vision with me, because

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs ... involves. I don't know what, exactly, led me to nominating myself for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about ... afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don't take it for granted ... time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006