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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  clubs to study and such. 4. Not playing the “GPA game” well... See #1, #2 ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise ... reform debate prior to this summer (and I'm still learning). Growing up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week. Maybe you still have seventeen lectures to review and the exam is tomorrow ... out. Maybe you're planning on pulling an all-nighter tonight and to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to figure out where the heck they're going. Our hallways aren't the easiest to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  This weekend, some people from MIT SAAS went to Yale for the South Asian Youth Initiative conference. The purpose of this conference is to create community for South Asians and provide a space to talk about

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... . After I graduated from MIT, I went to graduate school at Harvard. I did my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  together equipment to train rats for the tasks that the functional imaging ... other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... . First, there was 9.00 (Intro to Psychology) and 9.01 (Intro to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to pieces, and ironically, this was the year when more people than he knew existed scrambled to put him back together again.” - Pride ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  ? Whenever I talk to other MIT students, there's so much reminiscing. Always ... overwrite old memories with fresh ones. I wish I didn't have to revere things that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  together to make it better. It’s working hard and playing hard. It’s giving ... This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... /the thing you’re putting together the marketing campaign for? Answer: My ... to create a "Think Local First" campaign^^ for this island. I’m working

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  we never even ended up rooming together. When I got to campus I stopped ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in shop we weld two pieces of steel together, then clamp one down and slam ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  you can do better," and then we worked together to come up with a plan ... course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  coming together to celebrate the little joys and nerdy coincidences in this ... the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last ... much I related to many of the topics discussed, like exploring sexuality ... ? But also, I'm not sure how much I actually want to change this. Back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  procrastination. I take a moment to pull myself together before slipping into a ... moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017