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• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... reasons. Reason #1 (a.k.a. the 'good' one): I was a debater in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... aerospace education. There was a moment which stuck in my mind. I was ... exactly what he said (there will be videos online later), but I remember how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... she has ended up in her worst timeline. Though meant to be comedic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  , which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good ... , ultimately, it’s your choices that matter in both places <3) (also I don ... , but what they grow to be” "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20 ... Biological Systems). I’ve also been putting in several hours behind the ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  the field is completely different. I might have been in over my head ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... graduated, and their assistance has been invaluable. I can’t really say that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly ... say, I stopped taking honors STEM courses. In fact, in my senior year, I didn't take a single one. Instead, I buried myself in AP Government and

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the ... , eloquence, and soliloquy. If you're more daring than I was, you can even say

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all. What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here ... 're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT ... no home and no place and no thing that is perfect. I love MIT in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  clearly and responds to all of our questions. I like that I can be casual in ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... went before I gapped, except that then I did not realize how much I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  friends I already knew, made some new ones, and learned how to parallel ski. In the beginning of the month, I was struggling to figure out how to ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  this statement can be true when i rarely blog in the first place... oops ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006