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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT ... not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  I had a Subway sandwich for the first time in almost a year and how ... In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... not sure that I would want everything to occur the exact same way that ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... various locations around the world"]GTL[/annotation] in Kazakhstan, I ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted ... in high school and i want to learn more about how i can get admitted ... , would you guys retract your acceptance letter if I get in?" I'd say that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  years and i would never make much progress on anything in particular and ... in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Rachel, and I love course 3 (materials science).  I love looking at how materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  thing I’ve ever seen. The stats for how many emails I’ve sent/received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  the place. I found out how kind people can be, though - the strangers in ... Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  colds" or "the last time I was sick was 1918" or "MY leg would never fall ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  being is I convinced myself that I will spend my time that I would be in ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate ... take, what to major in if you don't know what to major in, how to talk to ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  ? and we want your help in answering them. In the comments below, I would ... never anticipated how much I would learn from the readers the MIT blogs or ... you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind ... , things would improve. Even sooner than that, I would catch up on sleep ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009