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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an ... around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... stretch to meet the lens. I once saw a woman squint a Saturn, and without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  (which is about a mile across campus from where I live). So I decided to ... the documentation for that as well. Then I downloaded it, made a Twitter ... making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  navigate whether that community is the right one for you. A great line I ... frankly, graduating from college is tough! Now, I’m not saying taking a ... you can feel happy and supported, a place where there are others who

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... . Originally I had planned to just take one class a semester for a really long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  shake your head too hard.) For the past two years that I’ve owned a DSLR ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  happen later. See your MyMIT portal for a list of locations and times for all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few of the parties around the country: one a day for the next week. (This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift from MIT's TfA recruitment director after I made it to the final ... 've heard from a person or two that this college ain't half bad. (Am I right

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... now been put in a retirement home where it can consult a therapist twice ... 's hard to get that feeling (for me, at least) when I'm sitting behind a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement ... 'll happen, too! I really like being Bad Ideas chair. It can be a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  , and… I get a break. Or I let myself take a break. A real break, for the ... policy for freshman fall, where we either pass a class or it doesn’t go on ... internship is basically 9-5, and then I have a lecture and a recitation for 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  day for a few months, and the night i got deferred, i just stopped ... a few days. the night i found out i was deferred, i wrote: Watch me ... overreacting, it was still me who wrote this, two years ago. do i not trust

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  the same lab, working on the same project. From that, I have gained a ... can use for grad school applications. If I had put some thought into it ... . Decide on a path or prepare for all the paths. I might have been applying

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  stopped by some ice cream shop with a funny name that I can’t for the life ... from the entrance and walking by each table, pausing for a moment if it ... along with it. Was this not right for me? Should I not be here? Can the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... me for work every morning, or even some spare change so i can look ... [annotation note="a story for another time, i promise"] who had barely even

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  'd compromise my morals for a job because frankly, I needed to take what I can get ... I look in the mirror I can only see a pity accept. The AOs threw a ... damn fault for being as stupid as I am. There are days where I curse the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  , and we went from level 1 to 4, and i had a lot of fun playing my half ... game i'm going to run. it's set in a magical realist world where ... that i can not talk to for years, and when we see each other we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... for this, and an MIT committee for that. I have a work standup, a sync ... feels like I'm in a whirlwind, jumping from meeting to meeting with no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  tradition; it's a different perspective, and that's what I was looking for ... thought it would be nice to get away from that for a year. This isn't to say ... ? Where would I learn the most outside the classroom? Where would I get a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  where you use Arduino to code up a control algorithm for a motor on a ... compelling poems, and get a better sense for what I want my poetry to be. For ... explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023