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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  slides -- when you shake up a water/protein solution (for example, by ... white water phenomenon all the time- when no one's used the slide for 15 ... stuff; or are most dorms already furnished? (Sorry for the weird question

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  i have no less than three different drafts for blog posts stewing ... project with a team for the first time ever at hackMIT instead of just ... 't guaranteed admissions so swag hunters were mostly filtered out"]going for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  in my [annotation note="PR stands for pull request, a way to request ... model and made a PR for sending [annotation note="the name of a project ... happens in an application, which can be useful for things like debugging

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  A few days ago, Spotify generated a playlist for me that included a song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for the first half, both because I was physically unwell for a huge chunk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... . I went home a few weeks ago for a weekend, since I won't be going home ... the people waiting for me at the airport would just leave because they

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  4AM and cry for no specific reason, traitor tears leaking through my ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18 ... Listener. I registered full time for all four, half convinced I would drop ... for first time teaching assistants in ESG(the Experimental Study Group

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... 'm cataloguing them all for a blog post, but it's not ready yet; I want to collect ... down to this. I know what's best for me. I know that what's best for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that ... and my PI was in Eastern Time. Studying for the GRE was also very self ... 's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  occasion is scheduled for June 7, as it is traditional for MIT commencement ... pretty cool for a few reasons: IAP feels longer since we don't have to register for spring semester until the first week of February, we get a 4-day

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  this class did not start out well for me as all I had from high school ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have ... being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... 've been talking about this kind of redesign for the last few years and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  to start the "build" classes for my major (MechE). I better understand ... . Time soon came for the 2nd 2.004 test. It was three weeks away, the two ... stuff. I had portioned out just enough time after CPW to study for my 2

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  to explain that they needed some maps for a puzzle. This sort of frantic searching for resources will be pretty common this weekend. Friday ... some of them for more information about the case. But the contacts won

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more ... touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”    For me, I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... rescheduling or simply asking for forgiveness. Everyone was more than ... for an extension. I did what I could of the problemset, I sent off that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  that you're doing for fun. It sounds really silly, but… it's pretty easy ... excuse for spending seven hours the other day listening and recording and ... effort for something that didn't end up looking too great. I mean, I had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  choices made for this building. The color scheme in particular annoys me, as ... ="I know theyre important for energy efficiency, etc,, but they have these ... Jeffery Gibson. This work was specially commissioned by MIT for its

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021