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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  of the day. If you've never taken physics before, you will have a ... probably won't in college. You'll probably get lazy and gain some weight. Or ... , there's a lot college has to teach you - calculus lessons, life lessons

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... received rejection letters from some subset of the colleges that you applied to. The 'perfect applicant' doesn't exist, and the college application

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  reserved for college decisions (I still remember it well). Good news: next ... ;Why College Rankings Are a Joke," the external proof that you can do ... physically walk down a specific hallway, or take a specific class taught by a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for ... 'll hear back from US colleges over the next couple of months. kate writes ... goals. I know the starting point...getting into college, and I know what I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... college.[/caption]   friends I made friends, and I’m still making

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  largely of college students--that had created a space for expressing this ... saw a lot of “Things I learned from college” posts from other college ... after freshman year of college that you might think should be included in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... phases of my college career: 1. September 2003 (Freshman Year): I had a ... about college life that I had not yet begun to consider. As time went on

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  reading in the certain thread at College Confidential back in April, the ... with physics, muahaha). 5.Not knowing calculus at MIT is like a fish not ... (at least it was that way for me). Also, college isn't like high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  experiencing the one singular warm day in Edinburgh, where there is a university ... helps break the college bubble. Boston is much more international than ... [/caption] So for all these reasons I chose to prioritize universities within

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  the center of the universe. With that context under our belts, we ... guess the universe thought I had it too easy, because I then got "How to ... . The Multicolor Universe was a class that I've been wanting to design for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as ... that I was truly headed to college. Panic. Decide that the best way

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  blah.) Since I know a lot of people will be needing to make a college ... State's honors college (+ full tuition/room/board scholarship). I was ... randomized dorm room and expected to magically acclimate to college life, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  classes [annotation note="8.01 = Physics I 18.01A = sped-up version of ... , since that was something my physics teacher in high school never really ... .01L, a version of Physics 1 with a slower pace that feeds into IAP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  lack of group outings and physical entertainment. The service is not much ... program. You get used to the comfortable college “monoculture.” At MIT, everyone has taken (or will at some point take) Physics and Calculus but no

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... calculus, physics (mechanics and E&M), chemistry, and biology. No ifs ... with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  heading off to college, billed as perhaps one of the greatest changes my ... shift in my thoughts made the transition from high school to college less ... hackneyed clichés. But on my own terms. College is the best time to try what

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  good. # “You go to university here? What’s your major?” asked a nice ... the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... love what they do. There’s a physics major on my floor in Next House who

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  Mechanics I, usually taken by sophomore physics majors. The Heisenberg ... .044 is Statistical Physics: an introduction to probability and statistical mechanics. It's usually taken concurrently with 8.04 by sophomore physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... Denmark to work at Universal Robots before deciding on grad school.  I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I ... University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... just trying to decide where you want to apply for college in the years to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018