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• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... in the class, there was a sense in which I didn't feel utterly hopeless ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... , representing MIT. Here is a small sampling of our collection.   In front ... lofty goal in mind, I’d like to end with a picture that is metaphorically

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... other languages. Talking fluently in a language you don't speak natively

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  , there's just a late fee. Want to know how much it is? Better consult your ... home (MIT, that is; home would've been 10 minutes further in a different ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... my academics that much, so here's some brief insight on how things have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  your opportunities or access to resources. In conclusion, here is a list ... professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in ... what I’d do without math. Now I’m a double major in Political Science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  giving his students free tickets to a show he's playing. How rad is that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . We split in to groups and designed objects meant to fix a problem in

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it ... slipped through the narrative cracks. - In mid-February, I boarded a bus ... 't seen an opera in about a decade. My last (only? not sure) opera

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking ... group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly ... out okay. i think the real conflict here is that i’ve spent much of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  Engineering with a Concentration in Product Development (2A-PD). Feel free to ... major is in 6-4 (AI and decision making). after experiencing a steep ... you don’t know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ? How much should I factor in money over passion in a career to increase ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  garnet unfuses to ruby and sapphire in steven universe, how they were a ... orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video ... in my case is my mentor, since my team's manager works in cambridge. my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  . Stargazing in Boston is a very different experience than in the suburbs of a ... paid for it a little. As much as I would love to do things for free, what ... getting to exist in a weird liminal space where everyone is just (as Cami

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn ... is exactly what I'll have to do very soon. It'll be a huge comedown ... yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... that. In my left pocket was a wallet with $15, a grocery discount card, a ... this is legal?” (If you look closely at her sunglasses in the picture

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  learned that freshman year is the only year that there’s a cap on how many ... independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for ... because it pretty much entails every dorm trying to show off its culture in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  floating in a fluid (which is what we’ve been talking about for two weeks ... for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree ... with my free time. i hadn't done anything creative in ages, and i never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  throwing my insecurities into the depths of the Internet is a step in the ... How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018