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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  into a very capitalist mindset for like 3 hours, and then I remembered I ... resonated with me and something I could see myself doing that is at least a ... --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  for the night to get dinner and see a couple of the most famous ... Schonbrunn Palace. It served as a palace for Austrian royalty (and occasionally ... ="121910" image2="121907" image3="121908" /] Inside was obviously, for lack of a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  , preparing for fall career fair, and you people? I’m only a human, after all ... posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... empty, the glass broken, and...*clears throat* Anyway. After a paragraph

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  fighters and got dinner with them <- a story for another time, and was ... for >98%, and therefore put in a very large amount of work to ... a 73. I have 3 and a half more years to give everything I have to MIT

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

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  countless friendships, joined a community I love and cherish, and experienced MIT student life in such a liberated and carefree way. Looking back, I ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it ... , with a pencil and markers and tape and scissors - it was a masterpiece. I ... that there were over a hundred and fifty people packed both inside and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... with 1-2 other students and he/she is usually a grad student or professor ... flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  . And today, I was hoping that we'd go 3 for 3! But, it was announced that ... , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... , who is an MIT professor and Nobel laureate who worked with Fire during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  limited landline when you have a cell?) 2. A twin bed with frame and ... friends and neighbors if they're looking to sell. 3. Floor lamp and desk ... you up! I have a CD clock radio and I <3 it. 6. A refrigerator. If

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  .) We only went in the wrong direction for about a block and a half, which ... both right. I did have a pretty cool and original story- after all, it ... out the first one for some Q&A.] Last Thursday night, Ruth emailed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of ... , and suddenly (like magic!) I had enough energy to keep going for a while ... glowing red dials. We looked at M3 (a globular cluster), Saturn (we could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  unit credit for a lot of other AP tests, and if you score a 5 on English ... runs the course and for the most part approximate a final exam in that ... : 1. It’s efficient (and effective). You can brush up or study for a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... concentration (Philosophy, which could easily become a minor with some work). Don

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it ... and have been in front of a computer since the age of 3 and never, ever ... ate the same thing. I had an omelette and a protein bar for lunch and a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of numbers you can multiply with a direction (specified by a list of 3 numbers

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  . Phew. That first one WAS just a fluke. And then I looked at the comments ... appointment with the tutor, but that would be a lie. I didn’t even look up her e ... mentioning my paper: "By the way, take a look at the comment for the paper 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try ... , so we improvised a little with what we had, like using pepper flakes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  other options, but he professed his undying love for 3rd East and ... entire night, and when he filled out his form he put a '1' next to 3rd East ... Dorm Rush like a proper rush and look around. Even if you love your temp

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  -college). I can deconstruct any bowl of ramen for you, and make a pretty nice ... 'm still really proud to be a graduate of both the MIT Biology and History ... write a short little blurb for them last year, and I was more than happy

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

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

  

  people, and get a feel for which cultures you fit in with.  MIT can be ... alone as a prefrosh, and my agreement with my mother was that I would ... East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014