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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  enough time. Do you see how much that is? It’s so much! I’m really not ... teenager and the free-spirited lesbian and the cocky A-student in me, we ... : Housing is actually going okay! You have a group you love, you have a few

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... . In fact, I have a free hour on Fridays before class in 10-250 (right ... itself.   One interesting point here is that a lot of the libraries

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... interruption. In the end, he graduated with a quadruple major (this is no longer allowed -- now the maximum is a double major): SB in Chemical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... in this post, this is the only one I had planned out beforehand

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so ... time in my life (it was a modular synth techno set, if you were curious

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  skates in Indonesia. Thundrblade, a Kyoto based startup, is launching ... When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  the design is also a work in progress. I'll be working on the other ... . It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how ... as your Athena locker. So Ben sent me a link with info about how to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT ... will become something I never live up to, how in a couple weeks I'll post about how hosed and stressed I am, and in a few years when a random person

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  Zoom call is just so much lower than that of a meal together or a weekend ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new ... Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... in a much smaller group (me, my advisor, and a grad student) and I was ... A guest entry by Adam The blogging machine that is Mollie is running

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a ... . Make friends in your grade! Although this is a spillover from the general ... . Get to know them! Eat a lot. CPW is full of free food. Enough said

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... around this time. I can hardly believe how much has changed in just one ... you'll be happiest. 2.In one year, a lot will be different I can pretty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  ;feature=youtu.be 2. Whenever I need a break from the house, I drive around in circles ... chance to say goodbye to in Cambridge when we left campus. Here’s a list of ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  spy a Lydia in the background! Basically, the moral of this story is to ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... students affiliated with it) also offers free classes in water sports like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  Workshop that I attended--I'm very much interested in a career in consulting ... /No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... is a weekend? I need coffee. I never drank coffee before this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  is much more hardy than the acrylamide gel). As you might notice, a ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006