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• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . He asks me how I am. I say I'm doing well. I ask him how he is. He says ... to. I tell him I go to Boston College. I do that when I'm feeling a ... located. Newton. Then, I search if there is a Trader Joe's in Newton. There

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i ... afterwards i think this is actually a pretty common bias. it’s closely related

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... but I do know that every time I checked with the EC about the interview ... ) admissions officers have to do that. In fact, when you ask them what your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  the liberal bubble that is Cambridge, Massachusetts, I understand a lot ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... this book given that i'm only fifty pages in, but wow, its prose is ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  - I do the most recent things first. So today I'm exploiting that ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put ... Worse-Is-Better is a better development philosophy than Do

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... application season approaches. I hope to post it some day soon. That day is not ... mind, in our mind, is that the universe didn't burst out into pre

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the ... Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  '11 (Course 18, of Putz in East Campus): "I have a story that is a good ... I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... basically said - I'm a guy that can do stuff, let me work with you, and they

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  . However, it is a little funny (and maybe a little sad) that I still get ... this time in my training to be a doctor. This is when I started training ... kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  students. these days, I think that online advice is often useful as a ... before on this blog that I had a “winternship” in new york in january 2020 ... people in my group wholeheartedly recommended doing a Ph.D. if I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  you that i do remember listening to this a lot while sitting in 6 ... almost a year ago (wow how has it been that long), i made an ... playlists i should add them to yet. most of it is trash indie that i'm not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  tell a joke that began with "So a neutron walks into a bar..." (do I even ... that I'm doing so many awesome things, like watching April paint the room ... of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I reset my password?

  correctly, you will be sent an email with a temporary PIN that you will use to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I ... Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  , how collaborative is MIT? Do most people do psets w/ others[?]" That's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... 've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  help a dead god come back to life. (I am very surprised that "hell" is in ... , the Big Game is made in a completely new way! why do we love the Big ... and need to start over. That is a kind of type 3 fun. But in the Big

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024