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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  available. I also wish that in general, they had come out a bit more ... a kind of fade-out, but I'm not sure how noticeable that ended up ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I ... Seattle, rented a Jeep that had been designed by someone specializing in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... socialscenarios. Do you offer the academic program that I'm interested in? What ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... OCW or edX or hacking - and I really liked that. In the op-ed "A love ... make a difference in terms of culture and accessibility. 2. "How hard IS

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  is simply no feasible amount of studying that I could do to catch up ... sense that I’m not doing enough is just silly. I’ve shared this mental ... that concept at all. In this case, though, I think it’s a question of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  will do a huge blog on that once Raymond and I's housing is finalized ... and I need 54 more units in order to hit that 180 number."]I need to do ... . Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  members of the lab that I UROP in! We developed a dope curriculum to teach ... these. But this retroactive brainstorming is a fruitless exercise, and I ... and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... time in literally my entire life, I felt athletic. I know that’s such a ... ="and my friends and family"]myself[/annotation] that I was going to run a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  with a prompt that I wrote, which is in bold. Robo-CJ then completes the ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... some money, and I can finally afford to live a life that is more balanced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to ... 've been struggling this semester, in a way that I hadn't realized before

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick ... ?♪ ♫Underneath the Dome is where I stand, looking far offinto a winter wonderland

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  this is all cope. Like, maybe I got a B in that one class because I ... too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love ... material is not only relevant but extremely useful in everyday coding life. A ... The idea behind Globalization is to offer a CI-H that you can take with

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  zero bandwidth, the thing that keeps you in a state of burnout, is that ... other institution. I do firmly believe that there is something about MIT ... other, that is special. Yet, it is also true that in a society where there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Living to Create And why I am the things I make.

  

  putting them together in a way that I love, and then giving them to the ... are more “academic” or “professional” that I could be doing.  But the ... further in life, I’ve realized that I have placed too much attention on them

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  . I've been dabbling in guitar for a while, maybe it's time to do some ... .001, the class that inspired this post. I was more than a little apprehensive ... stress and strain and all that, sure. But I've also learned about how I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am ... well at so far in my life? Is it a career that I feel aligns with my ... career). Vienna is a reminder that despite everything that I have said in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to ... turns out seven seconds is very doable.) I've been doing a fair amount of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... teaching positions (a number that had not changed in ten years) and zero

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  I’ll have a bad ending. If I need help, all I have to do is ask ... ). This year I learned that rivers can freeze and that molasses is a deadly ... In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025