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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  others while in college, I’ve often asked myself, “What would high school ... E house (it looks wayyyyy better now!) I was struck by how different my ... alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That ... , which just about covered an entire 24x36in cardboard sheet. I filled the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... icing. "I wonder if there's a pink food coloring deficit in the world ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of ... in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  GroupMe, could not find out when or how we would be given this opportunity ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... in the how-to-program sequence (after 6.0001, which starts at the very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  recently.   I came home from college having all these plans for how I would ... story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Abstract Ring Delivery is a time-honored tradition in which Massachusetts ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... Rachel R. ’16. Accompanying figures were digitized using an iPhone 4 camera

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , I would be interested in hearing the opinions of women studying ... in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... -taken-shower. I hated this sign. Because in what world would there be a “Young ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... (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

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I ... there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... presumably the odds that I would have the same birthday as any random person is ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007