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• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... the explanation of what a derivative is. 2) I'm exactly the other way ... beginning to be a bit apprehensive of math (I'm in BC this year) even though I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... is invariant under a reversal in time? I'm sure there's an answer, they ... another life called "high-school", I was a musician. I wasn't great. In fact

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check-in ... set off on a cross-country road-trip. I was leaving that early because I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  likely for others. Therefore, I feel a sense of duty in debunking my own ... Literature, or even publishable in a school literary magazine. I'm not saying ... admit that what I submitted was not my best writing by a long shot. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  'm probably going to switch majors. I wrote a two post series back in June about ... material will help me in the future. I think my being a physics major has ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the courses offered in each department. You may receive credit for subjects of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  ridiculously long way in a way that I am super excited about and kinda proud of ... have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. It's taking a lot longer than ... because it's due in t-42 hours and I have other stuff to do before then.

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  got to explore the city in a way I never had before and share the ... use. I had never lived in a place with any kind of public transportation ... home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to ... think about what I'm going need all day before I leave. I learned this the ... like there's been a physical expansion in what areas of Cambridge are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  opinions; I'm just trying to plant a little seed of doubt in the minds of ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the one that I sent to my mom I've never been to a book signing before

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• 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…

  

  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 ... of your first year. I took a theater class in the fall that wasn't a CI

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

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored ... those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the notion that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... finished a tv show in its entirety; i hope this will be the first. i am ... chance for a reset day will be anymore. Well, I should not have thought

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... still at MIT, so the night before “yesterday,” I took a train back to MIT ... before I have something worth writing about, but lately I’ve been trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot ... Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room ... about laptops for MechE. I have a different answer now than I've had in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... I somewhat hubristically felt like I had a very good understanding of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  that I've come to fall in love with.  And recently, I've been trying to ... . (Check out Janet's recent post to see what the fall colors look like here ... in either Apple, Cinnamon, or Pumpkin flavors in a number of unique

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  About a month and a half ago, I received an email from Sneha '13 ... untapped productivity. What Divya and Sneha have proposed is (in my head ... used for cooking - all at a low cost. ~*~ I've only given you all a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I tried setting up a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu but I messed it ... store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to ... 't get that in California. I should talk to my manager about the things ... though! You know, I’m a robotics engineer. And you study, what? Anyways you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023