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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it ... . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... . =) Anyway, the point is, I know it's awesome...but in my world, still less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... learned from a poster in my high school library when I was 13 years old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... dozen other MIT students in South Wales, I was the only MIT student in ... train back from a day trip in Liverpool. Then I painted a few scenes while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association, MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as ... they used). in june, i came around, mostly because some of my very best

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I ... course, you can barely tell how wonderful of an idiom it makes just from ... the other hand, if you'd asked me how I felt about feeling like negative

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... tremendously surprised I was at how natural the conversation felt. I told him ... about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... been wondering how this fits into the content of the class itself, and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  maximize my time. I can’t just lie in bed and scroll through social media for ... heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... know if I want to be an engineer anymore. I can't tell if I never even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  can’t fully process the extent of how I am changing. When I’m on campus ... ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  this hiatus; I can't express enough how much I love being part of this ... the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a ... made me prioritize my obligations in a messy and unhealthy way. I was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the ... [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... lovely. it reminded me how much i love the people on my floor and how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I ... asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every

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

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  algebra” or “…and then I’m sure you guys can do the algebra, so in the end ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high school. In fact, (a brief tangent) I’ve always disliked it when college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... in the months to come! ___ That's it for now! I have a couple other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money ... about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022