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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  time to check in with myself and do a vibe check on how I’m doing. This ... that thing where if someone I’m talking to is in a bad mood, I by default ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... . Without a doubt, 6.2600 is the most magical and exciting class I’ve taken at ... , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  influenced how I designed Hydrant, a rewrite of Firehose. Firehose is a ... better in SIPB ourselves. I dream that one day, people will step up to be a ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The ... else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This ... FB group know what I'm talking about). The point is that you bring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the ... article is a good overview of the history of women in MIT. This catalog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  interview day took five years off to start a NGO in India, and I thought that ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... knew that if I thought too hard about it, I wouldn't do it - so I put myself on autopilot, and shot my hand in the air. On the occasions that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  portray a certain pessimism that I've been encountering a lot lately being ... internationally, does not insist that you declare a major when you apply. This is a ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... that I wanted something different. In this past blog, I wrote that the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  and there is a document in your queue that you didn’t put there. You ... ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , pretty much whenever we want. But, being a blogger is competitive, dare I ... weather is so bad you'll die, you're giving that tour in snow

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  : Because I want to do things that are interesting to me. A: Why do things ... "]reason."[/annotation] Aristotle goes on to argue that that virtue is itself a [annotation note="i ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How ... (I wasn’t) or engaging in self-harm (also wasn’t). I do know that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ."]cliffhangers.[/annotation] Have to do my homework *ugh*.[annotation note="I made a Facebook that ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that ... Microsoft Suite"]I already know how to use a computer >:([/annotation] is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  will learn at MIT is how to handle failure in a constructive way. You ... that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013