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• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele work quietly. There are books along the walls, most of them higher than anyone can reach without a latter. Some are old and crumbly, but many are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... as a child. In the physics class I observe, there are some students who are really really quiet, and I sometimes wonder if the more

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know ... . First, a quick background just so you guys know where I am coming from. I ... kept up with my blogs, you are all aware of my most prized possession- my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , where they are posted prominently on the admissions homepage, along with ... masochistic moment that you realize who you are. That this is what you're made ... York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). They are also ... giving excited students their schedules, informing parents where they can ... haven just off lobby 10, where teachers could grab snacks and hang out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  :P here are the playlists i made this year. they are very boring ... well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... . running - lol i wonder what this is for :P i actually made this playlist

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  made this happen. We are a small team of undergrads would never have ... lunches and toll plazas later, we finally arrived at our destination, where ... on to the three day Track event, where we needed to complete either 96

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where things as seemingly objective as motion or time are influenced by how one ... investigate where your frame of reference lies. No, put away the calculators and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to ... light are human eyes most sensitive to? Name 5 artists with the word ... the world and where it is located. Nobody at my table knew what "CHIPS

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  Square Shopping Center! Hooray! Suddenly I knew where I was. I walked ... Mass Ave. There are shorter ways from Porter to MIT than Mass Ave. I ... , resolving not to look at any more addresses until I'd made substantial

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  , East Campus, Senior Haus, and Random Hall are "East" (even though Random ... Cormick, Macgregor, New House, Next House, and Simmons are "West". Bexley is not really either. West Campus people are generally considered more conventional and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  discipline to determine whether our cadets are ready to make the transition ... , Kyrgyzstan where she spent two months learning Russian as part of an intensive ... back to MIT to mentor for Week 1 of DynaMIT, a free STEM summer program

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  things are becoming clear to me. This time of year my life has long been full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... months ahead. Here are a handful of tips I have for anyone who applies to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the ... Taylors and an MIT Orientation Leader 2006 shirt, wondering where the heck the building numbers are and why my recitation ('scuse me, "section") is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  annual Fall Fashion Fair which is basically an event where you get free ... understand. Also, this is MIT- most people are certifiably socially awkward as ... packed for winter were actually only good for early fall). Hall buddies are

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  bloggers reminding us about the so-called “free” blog post, where we can ... Engineering Problem Solving). My classes this semester are a little different ... (though power tools are lots of fun to play with). The material we are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  bounds are incorrect. Here's a visualization where I use [annotation note ... Regrade" button and a little text box appears where they can write a note to ... . We kept getting graded differently for questions where our answers had

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters ... call a "CHILL" day :) I settled down in Hamsika's dorm (where I met her ... ! Following the minority dinner I headed over to the CPW Welcome where Hamsika

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  Who: Natasha Elinor Grace Balwit When: Summer 2014 Where: La Villa ... . Yesterday, as we made circles in an empty school parking lot, the sky stormed ... one, now. "You already are," he said as he shook my hand. "Chill out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  ! Remember that you are AMAZING and where you end up doesn't affect that. ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo ... 2.009 presentations so much? Well... this class is what made me decide

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012