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• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  a drowning snowman in the moat?” And we laugh, agree that it would ... to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... yourself one of the most impressive things I’ve done in a while

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  entirely sure I would have even been aware they won the World Series. Because ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually ... classes now, too, since I promised I would at some point, and at this rate

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  year, I know exactly how to prepare and interview for jobs in the future ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... from the process, I wanted to talk about how applying to jobs was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was ... the class, I had barely stepped foot in a proper gym. To me, the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  rural desert roots in search of the rest of my life. I'm eighteen years ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... of a button. It certainly left Hot Wheels in the dust. I turned five

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

    intimidating would be an understatement. In panic, towards the beginning, I opened both GitHub and Stack Overflow accounts, in case I would have any ... coincidence, and I still do not know how it just fixed itself (but I’m in no way

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  that I would have the opportunity to partake in research at MIT was ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... junior high (in ~2010) boys who came to a competition I was staffing, would ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... Thursday I leave class thinking, "So that's how carbon sequestration works ... a pair of daunting circuit problems which I probably would have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  since high school; in sophomore and junior year, I would put every facet ... class, though. I would spend 6+ hours in office hours every week working ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -variable calculus and the 18.02's are types of multi-variable calculus). I came in ... school I was in the “honors math” sequence. I liked thinking about calculus ... MIT.” When I told my advisor I was interested in the class she said, “I

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... MIT students here in rainy Harrisburg, PA), so I'm going to hold off on ... the basis that "It won the PULITZER PRIZE." I really hope that I am in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer ... last year/beginning of this year, I feel really included in what is going

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... missed being in a proper routine. This semester I am taking the most classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in ... she very very busy? I would love to hear from her, and I guess so would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... , her album E•MO•TION came out in middle school. I remember coming across ... was right, because i am not in fact the biggest fans of those subjects

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in ... past students of RSM are now studying. I've never been in a program ... ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class ... US Government test on the legislative branch in which I was asked "What ... print without a coversheet. Fall 2004 -- So I took six classes in about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  class numbering system. It would’ve been so cool – I was going to code up ... . Now onto some harder questions... “How hard is MIT?” When I asked this ... specific, I know). CJ has written extensively about these old catalogs in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the ... that I'm only speaking of females in math/science/engineering. I suppose

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006