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• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a ... definitely a long-term project in a research direction that the lab is not ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... artificial things than organic things. this is how i got interested in ... first step in a lab. But it also drives me nuts in that I’m getting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  . that there is a life to live without the people i discovered my life with—is ... very eternal-sunshine-of-a-spotless-mind-coded way, i do now think that ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  requires 5.12 as a prereq but I'm doing them concurrently. Ironically, I'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling ... , when I first took Calc BC in sophomore year, Calc was just a huge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  question multiple times, something i noticed a professor of mine doing in a ... class that you may or may not be invested in is even tougher. i've been ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him ... So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math Level IIC and Physics in SAT II, will that over-ride my bad SAT I ... that your voice is represented, that's a BIG problem. "If I don't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do ... and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... habit hasn’t died, but really it was a decision; I came in determined that ... obliged to finish. That was a great tactic back in middle school, when I had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be ... :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Burton-Connor? Come represent your floor in a fast-paced game of "Sex

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  THAT'S how you do it, I still don't get that, I calculated that wrong, I ... ... I read the whole textbook chapters that cover what we're doing in ... weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  people, but in this post, my dirty secret is out: I am... a protein shake ... wheat noodles that I picked up in Chinatown a long time ago. I primarily ... favorite chocolate: this is a Cadbury sub-brand that doesn't exist in the US

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... Equations in the fall. I didn’t feel like much of a “real” MechE major at that ... jobs is a “problem.” It just meant that I was once again at a crossroads

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  . In the end, you get a finished product that is just the way that you ... printing mistake (which I keep as a reminder that good bed adhesion is ... .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... a better place right now if that were the case, and i think my ... because that guilt or pressure often results in needless anxiety. that is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences ... common feeling; one that feels like riding a stationary bike, which is, you ... exercise to you, because 1) you're tall and that's a "loophole I'm gonna

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  sometimes that I'm not a complete degenerate. But I actually do, in fact ... a belief that crabmeats is in its own sitcom. It's a long story. You ... semester. I'm very happy that I'm in a relationship with Caroline. *everyone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable ... things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... cat is cuddling with it. I live in horrified amusement at the idea that ... there is a distinct possibility that PUF has been hanging out in the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  has it that the bakery will soon include a chocolate bar! I'm not sure ... accomplishment. a. Cambridge Community Center (CCC): I'm a member of the Boston ... CCC. On Friday afternoon, I went with a group of about ten MIT students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006