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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... it themselves. At this point in my life, I think I agree. When I try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... how it is humanly possible to skip meals; I am hungry, hear me roar), I ... ’m qualified to use that phrase to its fullest extent, especially considering how

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  athletes who want to be recruited is to get in contact with the coaching ... a spot in the NEWMAC playoffs and it’s getting down to the wire! We ... As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... to get in!!!!!!!!!! (But you probably knew that, and if you planned to ... probably get away with generalizations in your essays because that's how you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind ... peek in the bathroom shows me that my body wash is going to run out! Well

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer—how ... Airbender, write poetry, and spend more time getting to know the area better ... forwards to looking back, and seeing the changes creep in. One final note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm slowly starting to learn how to quiet the small voice in my head that says ... community no matter how hard I'm struggling. But, of course, in my efforts to ... -mail from Petey, and I excitedly turned to my friend in DPD saying "Oh my God

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  my friend and his friend next to him and thinking of how much I didn ... person I met in my freshman year to the person that sits with me now ... and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions ... exactly how you're going to celebrate. Lunch or dinner with friends is a ... -med-ers and MCAT-ers. I wish you all the luck in the world :) P.S. Good luck to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... 's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to ... for that class was to  "Make An Agent." For this project, you must make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... to get from one side of the road to the other. Because there aren't any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2 ... in mathematics research. I'm not even close to choosing." Or, "It's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his ... .” Manolis’s interest in biology, and genetics in particular, also appears to ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006