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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  . After lunch, I went to a session on "Advocacy and Federal Funding: What Every Student Should Know," where reps from a consulting company in DC ... . I learned that there's a group in Arkansas, developing a glove for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... 'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... graduate institution. Of course, I didn't have a graduate institution yet ... before I formally made my decision to go there, I put "UC Berkeley

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a ... specifically. If I have a half-hour left before bedtime one night after I finish ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... long period of time to be properly encoded in long-term memory. I should ... what subject you are studying. I went through Course 18, to study the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  'm waiting, I check out the "queue," which is a list of all of the unresolved ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while ... violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2010. If there's one in your area, you should check it out -- it's a ... digital photos and I'll post them online. Here's a photo of Resonance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... ,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... physics. Awesome, I picked a major that essentially is everything that I

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... go to a fifth, last sunday night. i arrived in the room a few minutes ... , as if a rope was wrapped around it and i was suspended in midair. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  know that Guide to Residences in the NBM? Check out our i3 video in the ... . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you ... weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... a few interviews and lab tours, I was offered a position in the Chen ... in the lab for a month, but I have already learned an immense amount

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... " before coming to MIT. I did not know a USABO, USNCO, or USPhO existed. I ... longer than it should have and said "hey, I still got it right in the end

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  mountain, and that was lowkey the first time I had been in a school bus since ... . Since I hadn’t been on a board in almost exactly a year, it took me some ... since I was slowed down by getting back up. In the end, he beat me by a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... . Which I did. We had an hour and a half to kill before the actual show ... a run, Elli and I hide in the air conditioning, and later that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  does it work? Magic! Like a lot of things here. So what events should ... experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to ... know what that means right? RIGHT? That's right, it means you guys will

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  Algebra I and before precalculus, but in the MIT world it has (thus far ... I, which is basically a primer in group theory and linear algebra ... . Monday XFair On the day before spring-semester classes began, MIT held a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the ... playlists. The idea was an instantaneous success. I didn't even live in his ... "Psycho Killer" every morning. Ten playlists were uploaded in under a week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  very least i’ll get a better sense of what it’s like to work in the space ... how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... the question from a different angle - what problems do i care enough

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023