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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... . Some of them already know where they are living, and maybe they even

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52 ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  !"]listening to input from many different parts of the Institute ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this ... Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on ... stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  studying at one of the most intense engineering institutions in literally the ... . That includes both robots and mental health. There’s been a lot of debate on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  -so-prevalent commodification of time at the institute. As a student, time is wealth, time is ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my life. So, there. I’m a big fan of Saturdays. I often have a PSET due

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  actually so artsy! I had the notion of MIT being a hardcore tech institute ... about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  -- my urop at the broad institute is also a lot of work, something my ... from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  to include people from all parts of the Institute, whatever their ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  -- the latest technologies, a credit card swipe at the drop of a hat, new ... I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was ... powder.) (The great thing about cooking in college is that regardless of ... around to eat it. Never underestimate the stomachs of hungry college kids

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social ... building a career out of her true passions, even though the road hasn’t been ... to be able to share some of her insights with you. I also hope her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020