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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... from MIT to work in Apple's iPhone Product Design team.  He spends most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... know how every puzzle in this hunt works. Throughout the year, I ... that I'd imagine different people are interested in. In the end, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... time, I can't even stress that enough), you can develop interests in ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... him I can hear him wailing with the most sad meows you can possibly

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I learn best. What I found after Interphase was that lectures alone didn't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... ’s so many weebs in this school…jkjk” but then I was like “... unless ...   dimension: time, in the form of video frames. You can do fancier things like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  comics. Can you imagine how much time that would take?) As far as I know ... Boys in comics class a few weeks ago, we focused mainly on how Faith Erin ... end of the week. When I was in high school, I almost started a webcomic

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... ) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace ... negotiations during meetings, but I really feel like I'm in my element in it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if ... stood behind the girl in the sweatshirt. Michelle and I just stood there ... the energy drinks. As you can see, I'm slightly confused by the whole

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... get some exercise. I was horrified at how quickly I became out of breath ... work that I’ve been doing, but you can expect to hear plenty more from me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  in this stream, (if you're wondering how two liquids can separate ... time. I honestly wish that I had kept track of how many hours I spent in ... subway map and a complicated football maneuver. So, how did it go? I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about Buster Keaton where I had trouble in high school writing about, say ... . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24.02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  sun or some similar primary energy source? Am I missing something here? I told you guys - I'm not a science kid. Hook me up. In other news, I ... .) Except tell me, you science experts - how does an ecosystem with "fantastic

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have ... hottest fucking mess in existence right now. I've spent a lot of time ... yeah I guess my mental isn't currently in the best place right now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  dorms are a great look at how one can maintain the work/everything else ... intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... relocating to Boston College over the summer, I've had my hands full in chasing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011