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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anyway. *** The most common piece of advice I've gotten since arriving at ... a new pursuit that is worthy enough of becoming a story I tell other ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus ... managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), based at the MIT Media Lab. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... say with complete accuracy, that I am flying over Elmira, NY at 24 ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  .110 (thermodynamics), due Friday Meeting with my new UROP mentor at the Broad ... filled with so many different kinds of people, with so many different ... have drastically different ways of spending their precious "spare" time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  me into choosing a major at the start of my college experience, because ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... , you will learn a lot: fields you never knew existed, new lenses of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he ... used to that. I'm used to being one of the smartest students, but at MIT ... beach at night and looking at the stars.' [Cydney Scott / The Post] Corey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... stamina left. This isn’t particularly new, the sort of post-exam hosedness ... me of who I am at my best, and ~30 days left of IHTFP, am I able to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  King, Jr., weekend during IAP. Teams of people at MIT and people who just ... puzzles of puzzles, and there are also puzzles of puzzles of puzzles. At the ... decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... about the other new member of the secret team: Margaret ’23. Margaret is ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  So here's the new plan: instead of me always spending all week ... pretty cool, to be good at math. I hear that's sort of useful around here ... the decorations in the room. We even made an awesome new poster out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... it:     At the time, I actually didn’t know that there was a major difference since my CPW: THE EVENTS DIDN’T GO PAST 2 AM. At

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  of 202 inscribed copies on New Years Day, 2002. On February 20th, 2002 ... , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... the rest of me, smashed directly into the passenger side at about a 45 ... , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  fall, my obsession continues.  So when walking back from dinner at New ... homework at my desk. Somehow, I’ll have to swap the idea of MIT for what is ... ) demoralized at my inability to solve problems with the grace or speed of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn' ... gave a decade-by-decade look at the history of the Institvte, and helped

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... "mitt" then you will be stared at strangely, no joke. If all of this ... of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008