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• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information ... hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb ... conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  % from all of that a cappella texting, so I sit in my room and charge it ... that I also need to do laundry -- and the laundry room is right next to ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department ... propelled by a sort of fanaticism much in the way that marathon runners are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  scan that I do when someone is having a panic attack is reminding people ... how it tastes because eating playdough is a little icky. I really like ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  happy that they had no idea of this fact; clearly, I’m doing a decent job ... I got in, I was accosted by a lurking suspicion that it was because of ... desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a ... is a touch less vibrant than it has been, and although I realize that ... same way, if I was in their shoes. How could we have solved this? How do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... . In that respect, I appreciate the spotlight that is now shining ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  -Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ... motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... that we had a full team, Chris and I got started working on the actual

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... can healthily manage in a semester, but I felt so fulfilled doing ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... we being paternalistic by doing so? In the end, we think that this

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  like I was avoiding the things that I should be doing. Like writing a ... first day in a while that I comfortably walked without a jacket. It was ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Hufflepuff: “I do like baking (that's a thing hufflepuffs do, right?)” On ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... useful in another way--I learned that the other tiger students and Petey

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  happening in nature like that. This was a fun little exercise, though I hope ... or even evolving something realistically; I think it is mostly a ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  bought later? Does anyone even exist like that? ..Oh yeah, I do. 'Sup. This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  a good while. In the meantime, I get some pictures of the trains that ... Station. Interestingly enough, I think this is our only run that’s in ... pretend I know what CJ is talking about. All I know is that the Green Line D

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... consumption algorithm". Time complexity is a measure of how long a program (or ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015