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• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  at MIT but not taking any classes. How awesome is that? I know someone ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with ... something to say about all the awesome things you're doing (and that I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  have a draft, I usually do a couple rounds of editing depending on how much time I have left. The first round is me doing a read over through my ... papers is that you demonstrate a rigorous, scholarly analysis of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  scavenger hunt! What’s that, you may ask? Well, Tetazoo is a floor in East ... and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love ... I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  sticker above it is a picture of Simmons that I found in the Simmons Room of ... and I do find it to be pretty rigorously true. Right below that is a ... , that I strive to live up to, Especially, "She is clothed in strength and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  . Do whatever it takes. I think this is superb advice. My advice is a ... , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  that I can do more hands-on work in a non-class setting (side note - yes ... this 7-ish weeks later, still in disbelief that I survived. But let ... get something that worked so I could turn it in and move on to the next

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  college. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, college in general is going ... 'd just noticed a change in me that I guess I hadn't realized myself. Going ... this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  why I chose to live in Tetazoo, a living group where everyone is fairly ... College allows for a lot of freedom in gameplay, but that can also be the ... particularly beneficial when that comes. But keep in mind, this is minimally

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  'm very grateful that this is the stress that I have in my life, as opposed ... oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... 've been lucky to have been given a golden ticket and, consequently, that I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you ... ... and that is not trivial." According to Ben, it's got some factual errors, but whatever... that one sentence is seriously enough to put it among

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just ... , not even the staff. The plane was gone. I sat over in a booth in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... ,[/annotation] that there is a limit to that is rough. But it's also important. In my ... , that was a sign that I shouldn’t do any more deadlifts, because my body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  do the bulk of 8.033 on Thursday nights, so that I just have a couple ... thing I can do is recognize that given the circumstances, I'm making do ... precautions that do remain, though, this semester feels incredibly normal in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  nurses ask sympathetically if I was in a car accident and warn that I may ... words from one of my mentors, Kim, is a compass I hold closely - “Do what ... that carried me through MIT and high school. I’m learning how to be a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... definitely. I was one of the fans in the crowd that stopped by and I saw a lot ... California. The first time in about a decade itself that it is changing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics. I made a little video of the event. Here are the highlights. Enjoy

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  We understand that paying college application fees presents a ... international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request ... requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby ... that I just really enjoy learning physics, doing problems, etc. Physics ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  feminine pastime. Anyways, I'm glad that Metropolis is legitimizing craft as ... electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024