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• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  It has been far too long since my last entry, and I have an excuse for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  Oh man – considering the fact that JKim has posted not one, not two, not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to…

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  I’m going to be honest – The first five academic weeks here were not a pleasant experience. You all smile about this whole firehose analogy, thinking that it sounds fantastic…

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall terms, was the class I…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  (Yeah yeah, right now it’s Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday night so shut up.) Right now it is Wednesday night I’m starting/finishing/making minimal progress on my 8.03 problem…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  Shiny new computer Since my grad program gives a $1000 “educational allowance” to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop. I got my old laptop…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did everyone always come to you for help, expect the best from you, etc?….did you like it or…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I’ve been hit with what’s hopefully some sort of 24-hour flu or something… I didn’t get to go out and watch the marathon today because I’ve been…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  do more research on this, but I'm pretty sure that we don't get free

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  of research can an undergraduate do in mathematics? 2) You say master ... research sounded interesting, introducing myself and sending a resume of my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  Good evening, America. I could give you another cool story laced with pictures and captions. I’ll start with some thoughts. We’re almost halfway through term, and it feels like I…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  research paper on hominid bipedalism), and Diamond seems to be a pretty fair and well-researched writer. Today I talked to Allison's Dad and I found

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  went to Madrid to do computational neuroscience research about emotions ... research very much. Here is a blog about that whole thought process. I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could bring them back home after graduation. She was very excited about them, telling me how happy all…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  feel like a different person. not to be a nerd but in my research there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  near my family, worked as an architectural researcher and urban planner ... research city-scale planning for shallow geothermal energy and ground source ... and space to think hard and slowly and undertake deeper research than I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. ’25 and I were texting about random stuff this morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you. M K 2:46 AM…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  deep knowledge and his language translation research at Oxford University

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had brewed jasmine tea at the pika⁠10 My very cool independent living group! kitchen counter and…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  friend who urops at my lab about our research over gluten-free cake in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024