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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus has, as far as I can tell, more underrepresented minorities in ... Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college ... topic. Being in student government, I know a lot of people from a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  control group were placed in an environment where they were shocked ... occurs all the time in humans as well. i’ve written about this idea before ... , feeling that they “can’t do” math, and not trying as hard in subsequent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  's go! Me: OK! Wait. Where's my calculator? *looks in bag* 5.111-er: I ... ). Wonderful? Out of this world? No, the question is... Can you SURVIVE??? I ... -variable calculus and the 18.02's are types of multi-variable calculus). I came in

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  headquarters. There's my laptop in the middle, where I watch what answers have been submitted, an extra computer on the left, where I have Skype, AIM ... operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... know? I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones In a faith ... conversation format as in exile but is a lot more murky in that I really can

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best ... vaguely in order of decreasing personal importance: Physics. I’m taking ... , but I’m pretty sure that I want to major in it. Computer science

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  scavenger hunt where you can stock up on assorted knickknacks like water ... can’t get jobs at career fairs. I can’t emphasize this enough: this ... . Disclaimer: most of these people were working in Computer Science—but I also

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  malfunction in our darn WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I was stuck in an auto-repair shop in ... ?) – but I couldn’t resist?! Ice cream, in the making ... /keynote speaker and the activities and academics fair, where I learned so much about

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  transportation system in the ceiling where you could put a package into a machine ... watching what groups they self-arranged in. I also didn't fully understand ... in quaint ponds. When we reached the province of Nova Scotia, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  physics major, especially in favor of a major where I have somewhere between ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  the ten hundred most used words. I told them they can write about ... It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I ... really are! I don’t think I can do my students justice by just talking ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  senioritis in high school, but i think i have it now. i can think of many ... enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  . I hope that, by the end of this year, I can find definitive peace in ... I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at MIT. Because we say everything here in numbers, Course 20 actually means ... -. For the mitochondrial genome notation a strain can be ρ+ or ρ- where the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  , asked someone in the closest office where I was supposed to go, was told ... to this place than just doing classes. Here's the blog post where I ... UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most ... classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021