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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... the noodle*'s ancestors! How can we sleep for grief?" Septimus: "By ... can guarantee that it would look like complete gibberish to you. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons ... ! I love trampolines. I can’t do flips or anything particularly cool on ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... how I endured eight excruciatingly-foodless hours today while I migrated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  wrote when I shared that post on social media: "In Colorado, we only had ... 've ever proposed or worked on. I didn't want to think about how my entire life I have felt like an alien. How even my parents and my family

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  in general have also just strained. I feel like I can't talk to people ... 92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to ... was very productive. (Dora points at how clean the room is) Look! I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... , psets, eat, sleep, repeat. i fill the hours in between with mindless

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more ... loved the most. I can’t wait to see what the future holds in my other math ... . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ALSO can I just say how pissed I am about daylight savings time I am now 8 ... hours in a day. There’s a necessary trade off between how much you can do and how well you can do it, and I think this is something I particularly

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why ... doesn't cure cancer. But it's a fascinating subject, which I doubt I can

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM ... keep capitalizing the "Very Important" descriptor. Back in December, I ... month when he gave it to me. Fine. I can just use it online, right? After

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  Bridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note ... to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... submit an official transcript with your QB application, you can request an
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I ... notes from that lecture can be found here, in PDF format. There are lots ... postdoc attempts to publish anything and everything he/she can in order to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I failed dance class. Good thing that ... years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens. Somewhere in between kindergarten and senior year, I realized that dance was

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  ="77071" /] Finally, I tried to be artistic in how I expressed myself through my clothes ... the spring really proved to me how much I had grown as a student in ... ’m still unclear about my path ahead, I have peace in my confidence that I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  build myself in ways that I can't predict now. I still have imposter ... that I should've worked harder in my classes, even though I also know ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  first. Now I can say that I’ve actually been Tim the Beaver…how cool is ... whoever was being Tim the Beaver in the picture I took during the chaotic ... smiling if he tried!). In true presidential fashion, I even got to take a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the ... ’s summer in Brazil, so I brought mostly shorts and crop tops. I have not had time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  .009 project. But I’m exhausted, and burnout is settling in. Can I keep this up ... . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  weeks I spent in Wales, I taught a group of thirteen Year 9 students how ... shortly after I left).  I can see how it’s the little moments that keep ... Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023