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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... wrong, claiming that it's an ideal material for when scratch resistance is ... , versus asking for help. There will always be people in your classes who

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... my dorm. I collapsed on my bed, keeping in mind to rest for a few ... able to finish this…should I ask for an extension? No…no, I just…I just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... to class, couldn’t squeeze an extra five minutes of wiggle room in to account for mistakes. We should put in our schedules, she said, noon to 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... , in making sure that whatever models i use for self-understanding don ... way to turn in your life.” i am an advanced squirrel working on a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better ... now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise ... topics around in my head and wait for inspiration. That's the thing about ... applications like an assembly line worker you may not have time to just wait for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  ; -----------------------------------------   Well, that's mostly it right now, besides actively looking for a full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  that I slept for 21 hours in one day. I guess it fixed my circadian ... honestly didn’t come in any earlier this week because I had an evil sequence ... in my room for a few minutes, and I discovered that the vitals log is

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• 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…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... visiting my mom's class (she's a fifth-grade teacher in the district) for ... him for me. Questions answered: 1. Shen asked I'm pretty interested in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  . An infinitesimal part of. As it turns out, for some reason, this is a ... , vocab word of the day). Now for the part of the blog in which I get more ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... the dinosaurs). After fighting two world wars over it, in 1946, the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don ... resource for applicants in Mexico. Some of our Mexican students in the ... want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  sorry I missed it -- it looks delicious. I'll have to settle for visiting ... My 21H.927: Economic History of Work and Family teacher, Professor Anne McCants, ran an IAP event entitled "Old Food: Ancient and Medieval

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean ... for 20 minutes and sit down for six hours" kind of deal. in terms of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ourselves for a few minutes, then got kicked out so that everyone could talk ... Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... . (Disclaimer: I did always have an interest in bioengineering, but i just didn ... of my friends had begun looking for apartments and packing their boxes

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  adornment of an entire, modestly sized single room in East Campus. Which is to ... for yourself in college provides, as there is quite simply nothing like ... myself. “PI?!” she shrieked in bewilderment. “You know, pi... the

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply ... graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... aesthetic boba from Abide!! we look pretty hardk0re in our protective face ... MIThon, which is an animation hackathon (in true MIT spirit) to make a 30 second

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018