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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff ... 1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  thing I can think of is Taipei, after spending a month in Hong Kong, but ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... --skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about ... manage my time, and how to select a courseload that will make me feel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  reaction on that day. Now, how about a proper introduction?  My name is ... day at a time through doing things that you love to do. I like MIT.  I ... flame retardant plastics, and I was actually chosen as a finalist in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  ! Which is a pretty remarkable nerd collection that you can peruse whenever ... Electronics Research Society", though to be honest that name is a bit of a legacy title. In reality, we're a student run hackerspace that draws a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... .74: Bio-Inspired Robotics. I walked into 3-333, which is a conveniently ... I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... wall. There's a foothold on my right that I could use to place my body ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  notes for new stories are just that, notes. I have not been consumed by a book in too long. I miss that. During summer, I spent a week going to ... their footing. I also spent a weekend writing a story about a vampire. In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  please, bear with me). What I can control is how I handle myself in every ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... fully immersed in a cloud of good old fashioned cold symptoms and I wanted

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  can do, for how we as people live in the world. Course 11 is the perfect ... . Especially after taking D-Lab development (which is a class in course 11) and ... date is 11.005 Intro to International Development. I am currently in two

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  .022 psets. (Still not sure how I pulled that one off.)   Yes, that is ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... at MIT last fall, I originally told everyone that I wanted to major in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  even before getting here that emphasize how well-known it is. There are ... Technology. I mean, a place that allows me to take reasonably good pictures 1 ... that. I find myself observing (and totally appreciating) a certain kind

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  is a ranked hockey player in the US). And my son discovered that while ... diverse abilities and strengths do well in all of them? The answer is that ... many different contexts), I feel your concern in this regards is a bit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  ) then how much CO2 is produced by burning one kilogram of coal? I had a ... feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... Thursday I leave class thinking, "So that's how carbon sequestration works

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  run that I spent the rest of the evening setting up a computer in the ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I ... compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  great place to learn, see, and do. That is a fact that does not change ... -- SAILING! I officially start graduate school in a week pursuing my PhD in ... school is somewhat an apprenticeship in which you prepare yourself for a

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  foof reading a book, I could do that too without any judgement. There ... opinions and a willingness to talk about them. -- I also think it is the most ... -being. But this is something that you learn to deal with in any dorm, and also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  What I've noticed is that being an Admissions Blogger has turned me into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up ... she was in tears, unable to do a move called the pivot. And I was nervous as a first-time instructor, nervous that I’d be able to show her how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have ... , projects, psets galore!) that I kinda wish I was anywhere but here. Summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017