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• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... tally of how many times i say i have a blog written but not posted lol

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could go through it all again! You might be wondering, what would I take as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I’ve hit that milestone this semester and would like to share 21 thoughts I ... ’t try to work in a fog. I know how to say “May I pet your dog?” in 5

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  decisions going to be online in December? I'm trying to figure out how heavy ... Early Action, and marked my physics subject test as the one I would like ... chemistry classes. I was just wondering how much a couple of poor test scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  how big is campus and how far are the buildings from the MIT map." I ... Boston a lot less of a hassle than it would otherwise be. If I need an item ... quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  in IPA. Maybe that would be silly. (i'm uh... also not sure if people would let me do that >_< i would love to though!) Related to ... the road when we're not hosed. I'm not sure how to end this blog post

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... gleamed with newness and strangeness and since I was convinced that MIT was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  glossed over the one thing that might call to me? How could I know what I ... us how he’d gone to school for psych, I think, then discovered chem his ... infectious. It was exactly how I feel about writing. I’m meeting majors one by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  given turn was the dominant one, I don't think would have built cities and ... because I'm ultimately not sure how many of these attributes of humans can ... honestly don't really remember how I wrote it—I just know I spent a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  have [annotation note="I can’t get over how much T A L E N T Emily and ... a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... ) are sadly shriveling.   My english teacher would be proud of that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  ? How could I miss something as paramount as that? (Turns out I could. Two ... think?” Me: “Umm, I don’t know… inspiration? Yes, I would say inspiration ... . Image by Joshua Charles Woodward With that, I think it would only be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  (mechanical engineering with a particular focus; I would have chosen biomedicine ... thought I would give you a brief insight into some of the questions that ... As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only ... of questions because I either know the answer or know how to find it ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  - Anxiety: If someone watched you 24/7, they would understand how pathetic you ... Lab?!?  Me: …I don’t know why I don’t know how to use MatLab. Anxiety: Because ... to decide how I respond to Anxiety. Do I: suppresssuppresssuppress

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  method many people call “the fire hose”:   (^how I feel on the ... heat dissipation. The math is the same–but I’m sure you know how much ... a few points” and I was like HOW ARE YOU SO CALM. I was not the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  commercial. King of the Nerds is not the type of show I would normally watch ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... ;         I don’t personally know Hendrik, but I do know Brandon. Brandon

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  . Angie F. ‘28, Ellie F. ‘28 and i were talking the other day about how the ... false parts of her blog actually become correct. just like how i am fixing ... wasn't personal, so I wouldn't waste time worrying about how to convey a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice. As a cheap yet fun giveaway, we are considering temporary tattoos. They would be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  year has that qualification, but I could not help wondering on how much ... and start telling us about how magnet schools aren't everything. I ... officers would overlook my science handicap. =P Glad to know I could make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006