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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them. on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  to focus after the first hour. Then the next day I could barely pay ... that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  entrepreneurial and get ahead, but first I need to go back to MIT and take 14 ... month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  short, I removed the entry, but I think it's time to explain why. Why was this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the MIT blogs? Here's the official Ben Jones reason: I asked Snively to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  from, and I even have some tips on how to use them effectively. First ... factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... internship program that I've been dying to do since forever. I applied last

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... time than most questions I encounter on an hourly basis. I started to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator" is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... few leftover undergrad requirements. I still plan to graduate with my ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  minute early. We waited a bit for the exams to come in. We were first ... 't seem to make sense Everything was going well Guess that was just the ... the cool things about helping run HMMT is the staff exchanges. My first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that you might want to take all your required GIRs first semester since ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to ... single vid of my first time snowboarding". Turns out, by the time we got to ... ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Biology major told me to give the subject a try, so I went for the first ... Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting multicolored, multi-ringed, colorful planning books complete with enough pens to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It ... ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... asked more or less the same thing during non-pandemic times. The first two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021