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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... and try the hardest you can in your classes - the semester will be over ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... that this varies greatly between the branches, so I can only speak for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... I belonged in my major (believe me, this made me feel good) – and I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... Tumblrs that post pictures of fresh designs in architecture, etc. Usually I ... . (You can read more about this work and others here) Then I went back to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  Creating Video Games I used to play video games in middle school, but kind of lost interest in them when I got to high school. So, I never really ... like an outsider in the class since I just haven't played video games in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  feeling stupid. avoiding embarrassment as in: i worried that if i changed my ... feeling stupid as in: changing my mind twice felt like i was going in ... more detached to reach the state i am at now, where i feel comfortable

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some ... exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  once. I had this moment most recently while sitting in my 18 ... rigorous high school math educations!!” Which began to degrade into “… I can ... , the walls of my room and B-Entry in MacGregor have many nice things. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  on Y?” where X and Y can be, quite literally, anything: the effect ... when economists can randomize interventions; that was, in fact, the ... [/caption] “Aha!”, you might say. “We can see that employment in New Jersey is going

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... might add, yeah me :-) I already knew where everything was. Sure, I kept ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  (when did that happen?!), so we frosh can finally declare a major. I ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  ’t slack off but can get away with occasionally skipping class, I’m learning ... , scheduling was tight. Along those lines, in class, in clubs, in rooms, I often ... scaled a few walls, all very run of the mill. I found sisters I can wake up

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... .) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are telling me I should double major in Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  't find secluded green spots where you can sit and enjoy life. You shouldn ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... Was Here. It goes: But I love you more than words can say I can't count ... you more than words can say I wrote it because I didn't feel "sad enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  ’t a single set in the whole board - though I hope you had a merry chase ... force this in Python pretty easily." Jeff: "Are you sure? I don’t think it ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each ... medical facility where he can get it done is the local county hospital due ... had a scheduled referral at the county hospital, where she sat in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009