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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... in with all the other ultra runners. And then it was time for the ultra ... in the conference room with HR and being handed a packet wasn't as

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... ="116773" image3="116772" /] Planning and Brainstorming This is usually just a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  imperial shuttle, complete with retracting wings and ominous music. For ... Developmental Biology, and I’ve been working since then as a postdoctoral fellow ... . So he’s been in California for the past two years, and I’ve been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  , there is a community here mourning with you and for you. Now I say to you ... MIT's Infinite Cooridor. I met up with a handful of other MIT Symphony ... experiencing now, and what they will continue to endure. My heart breaks for each

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... Paul and I both are). The Burchard Scholars program identifies a group of ... humanities community here if you just look for it and chase after your passions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  comes at a difficult college-choosing time. I hope that a look at MIT ... women were respected for the work that they did: And the 1896 yearbook ... , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  policing and criminal risk assessment. there's a critical need for ethics and accountability in data science, and a "bill of rights for data" so that everyday ... became press, and a forum for the voiceless. It became a street corner on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course ... curve anymore, it’s a line. And you know what to do with lines, you ... , this would be your starting speed. If you believe me for a second and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... 's monasteries and monastic libraries, leaving us with single digit numbers of ... how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still ... . We started off with an exhibit with art by Takashi Murakami, a modern ... go "stand over by that painting and look candid", which I think he did

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  to be a model example for dealing with border spaces between cities ... explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and ... school. Finally, it established a better understanding for me between

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  midpoint. a paper, worth 15%, and project 3, worth 20%. Both due at ... midterm and ending with the last one, midterm season looks like this: It ... %. Classes could have both problem sets and labs. In the extreme case, a class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  tutors in and they match you with their volunteers. A bit worried my freshman spring semester I signed up for both a 6.01 and 6.042 tutors and it ... to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  ) it's terribly frightening and 3) it makes me sound like a try hard. But ... creates a product that calls for yet another decision to be made. And that ... very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  then for the remainder of the semester, you and your team build a fully ... comprehension, mixed with some movies and short films. For the first time, these ... (Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) courses at a rigorous technical school

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  interesting (and for some, some of the requirements are interesting too). Both ... , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... class. It's a HASS-D, it's a CI-H, and if you're Course 9, it's required

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  year suddenly have a new freshness to them. And with that freshness, I ... . 16 events in 3 days. We’ve been planning for months. And as our CPW ... experiences for the PREFROSH! Our CPW begins with the Costco run of a lifetime

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... . Like what! Like wow. Writing MAs and MFAs come with a hefty price tag ... schools I looked at. A friend of mine is applying for grad schools in a more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long ... celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat.tumblr.com if you’re interested), and raised over $11,100 for Juvenile Diabetes

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  writes some good stuff with "el realismo mágico" (a mix of fantasy and ... start with some short stories and go from there. I guess that's a lot of ... guys and only writing short updates. This makes me sad. So today I have a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006