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• 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 / 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

  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

  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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i ... . in honor of this re-realization, i decided to document all of the fun ... ="and david bowie died before i had enough money to go see him in a concert

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... is right in the middle of Chinatown, so I've walked by it countless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the ... like that. it's more of a, if i don't write anything in a week then that ... 't know because i've never done it cj: i mean idk i didn't know how to say

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  just hope I could drop all my classes and spend all day in the lab. I learn a greater deal in lab than in classes. I think UROP has been an ... studies on the bench top and in vivo animal experiments. M: How did you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off ... about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  from kerala...I would like to join in mit for aerospace engineering on ... preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C ... matics level 1 and SAT physics and TOFEL...But i dont know how to prepare

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... campus.  The RingComm chair is at least the 3rd in a row from the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014