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• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  how materials function, and I feel like I can apply these to real life ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... summer to get to and from his job in Providence. I've used it to go to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  wrestling can't be the only thing all 4000 of us have in common. I just don ... hear, they like human beings. Can't blame them. I have this idea in my ... doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... didn't notice how gingerly I walked. Eventually I went to MIT Medical ... sucked. I couldn't exercise by running, so I started lifting weights in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... I'd summarize them a bit so that prefrosh and incoming frosh can see ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... what the editing process will look like during school — how will I make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I ... lab -- how exciting! I've also been working on assignments for my other

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... about how, in my sophomore year after breaking the Rule, I was hyper ... some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how ... was my thing and I was making bank. But I can't tell you how many times ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , dance performances, and more. Shikhar asked, "Can I send in softwares ... well too). Is the recommendation process set in stone, or can I use his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing. ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying ... indeterminate structures and projection! I really don't like this stuff, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... want—how convenient! I’ve found myself seduced by this easy illusion. I ... giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  myself I have other skills I can bring, and I’m at college to learn.   In ... generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024