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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  internet. However, you can't go around making embarrassing entries like this ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... ." very meekly. And in college it's especially awkward when you write an e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  3.020 each counts as a half CI-M because of course 3 lore reasons ... two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you ... something. Know as much as you can about the Member of Congress and the ... information. If I can be a resource for you, please don’t hesitate to contact me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... retinas are made up of cones and rods, cones allow you to see colors in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there, face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can ... database, I mean my brain) – PYTHON. As you can probably imagine, I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... Crichton, and he is not that intelligent. He is known as Derp Cat. As you can see, he is very derpy. Derp Cat is not smart. He is not smart at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  :     Chad ’13, in the green shirt, stopped by the kitchen for ... . Chad is majoring in Course 22 (Nuclear Engineering). Devin ’13 is ... in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  at all. Class of '13, remember this when you're deciding between ... egregious lies in all of scientific history. You guessed it, I'm referring ... into more free giveaways than can fit in a single dorm-provided desk, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... doing as many things as you can if you have the option of doing them. If ... : I know you read these sometimes. Hi :D). It was one of the best

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  other languages. Talking fluently in a language you don't speak natively ... fluent Spanish and is looking to practice English. You can then meet up on ... website where you can make a profile, search for people with complimentary

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  If you're the only person in a room and you have psychological and ... else before hosting people. You can cultivate whatever vibe you want ... effect on what kind of socializing can occur in them. In BC, the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... ) is something that I don't think you can find in many commercial ... mean, you can wrap anything you want in rice paper as long as it fits

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... turned out to be pretty algorithmic. Apply the concept you learned in class ... theorems and have to tinker until you can assemble them into solutions to the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  readings and assignments. In this course you will do a great deal of reading, writing, and class discussion, perhaps more than you have done in most of ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I ... do you do with these three items? You make this video. And then you tell everybody who watches this video that, if they live in Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016