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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  companies might in some cases have an obligation to experiment on their users ... people in civic that i work with, around, and next to. they are my honest-to ... in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  ’m realizing how many similarly slow ways I myself have grown. In the day-to ... 've learned how to take notes in lectures, I've learned how to shop for ... back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming ... , and love among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a ... distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  -vaccines and terrified to interact with anyone outside my household, in a lot of ... always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... through air, to breathe clearly, to be awake instead of trapped in a dream

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth ... me that every scientist should know German in order to be able to read ... told me to hand in my resume, cover letters, and faculty recommendations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  cover P/NR, the GIRs, MIT's grading system, and how to get into the best ... from, and I even have some tips on how to use them effectively. First ... 's probably the easiest way to find a simple list of classes in a particular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography ... (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class

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

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... hereditary—my multi-talented mom* taught me how to fold origami, do beading ... , who first figured out how to build such a sculpture out of business

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production—it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... how much I wanted to come here! - and now I'm here, and it's been two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  run across the street to turn in homework, but I do appreciate how new ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... --students narrow down their course selections to somewhere in the 4-7 range (usually

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... , but little time or motivation to do anything else. In school, I had an average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... left except to speedrun most of my second major in one semester. Maybe if

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  't know how to feelBut I wanna tryI don't know how to feelBut someday, I mightSomeday, I might ... Think I forgot how to be happySomething I ... same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  school"]was willing to bet my right kidney[/annotation] I would not get in ... we're proud of you for getting to this point in a tough year. And with ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020