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• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  could've applied elsewhere for work. in another world i could be doing a ... branches of our repository. the idea of a branch is that you can develop it ... real." a bowl is a bowl is a bowl. in the song branches, the chorus isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  video on for a long time. I knew that I didn’t want to do it on something ... subject. I would do a video on balancing creativity and expression in a ... , the unsung hero is background music. I took for granted how large a role

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  that state for 30s in totality, when then I’d snap back to take a photo ... glance at the Sun without my glasses a few times (please NEVER do that, I ... .  […] Finally, with the Eclipse, I had a sensation that I very rarely had in my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... somewhere that is fast-paced and making important strides in a high ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  the last time I was here, the big library that kills you if there is a ... , convinced me that I could be happy too. There is a future where I could be ... is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  and seniors that I knew in the program. I think I may have seen a flier ... program who’s also a chemical engineer and I think that whatever she does is ... . So, in a way, the reasons that I entered have been beyond fulfilled

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... started running out of work to do after one semester, so I adopted a second

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  , when I was a kid. I learned to fight because that’s what we do. I was ... know that I do.” What Did I Learn as an Undergrad? (2117 words). This is ... call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... to see who has the most APs; I do want to see, though, that you've done ... insight. Up until now, all I've been doing is reading, thinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  the way I feel about my major. I love my major in a way that is less ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never ... . Each suite in MacGregor is equipped with a small kitchenette that cannot

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  you are not a good person. But that's just not the case. I think part ... diversity. Walking around central campus, I could feel a buzz that I hadn ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how ... language that introductory computer science is taught in at MIT), so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  , small bags of stuff that do a lot of work to keep us alive. We are interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... species for use in medicine, agriculture, and history. The hope is that by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  happens? This is something I care about a lot and really want to do with my life, and when I try to think of my future in a way that doesn't involve ... .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I ... that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a ... purpose of letting us “decide if this class is a good fit.” Hearing that, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back ... German II. I had my [annotation note="Does that even count as a midterm ... . I had forgotten how stressful of a place MIT could be, how much

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  because the default is freshman year, and i thought it was a bug that the ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019