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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their ... One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I ... train routes and service. I'm working with some great people, and you know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the ... - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  med school), but I certainly remember how MIT History taught me to ... town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? Hi! My name is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  . I remember how hard it was to be a freshman, so I'm just grateful that ... preference. Then, for the next question, you would switch roles. Luckily, I was ... I would. Week 3: MCG Interview So I absolutely botched my MCG

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -campus than I otherwise would've liked; I spent a lot more time feeling down and ... class or two and still graduate, and I have a little wiggle room in how ... lesson of how to drop things and how to say no. I think my core frustration

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  of War team at PlayStation this summer :) I have no idea how this ... , but many of my upperclassman friends assured me that I would learn a ... do my job) a day after learning how to make them myself. And although I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  i didn't know. with everyone gone, it felt closer to how i felt when i ... campus courtyard covered in snow. i've forgotten how beautiful it was ... quarantine. having a meal plan sure is convenient, but i do miss how, last year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  MATH CLASS HOW WILL I EVER END UP GRADUATING AND FORGET THE DOUBLE MAJOR ... First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write ... . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... ode. As a freshman, I would, on occasion, hear people talking about the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  perhaps more rigorous and with more proofs, I would definitely recommend. It ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the money. 6-3 is actually a fun major believe it or not, and I've gotten far

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... wrote about how I never really connected with my own culture, and as a ... even is that?” these students would say, and I would grumpily answer that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... days of MITblogs, circa 2006. Long before my time, Sam '07 would prelude ... Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday ... weekend for bacchanalia.  I was thinking about how, at MIT, I rarely have ... of nothing else; how long since a book has so gripped me? I am hoping

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  my best friend back home about how I finally found the place where I ... Muslim students and staff would gather under the roof of a building ... students would turn one of the classrooms into a makeshift church, often

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at the same office as my MIT sponsor, a Course 2 alumni. I had never been

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  complete radio kit.) Remember when I said that I would be taking Terrascope ... was an amazing part of the Terrascope experience. I never realized how ... Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you ... -generation college student, I have always wondered how people from similar backgrounds ... understand why they're upset, or maybe you just don't understand how their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  myself. How do I make them feel assured that I will be okay? I went to CPW alone as a prefrosh, and my agreement with my mother was that I would ... I'd be happy to try my best to heal you :) How should I approach CPW

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... results, findings, and analysis. Not to mention I'm staying gainfully

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012