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• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this ... took for granted any other time. I took a breath. The air was crisp, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... blogosphere. The MIT+K12 Videos Program is managed (and executive produced) by ... STEM topics more accessible and exciting to a K-12 audience. And Science

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new ... otherwise know about or visit. By teaching astronomy for 7-12 year olds, I met

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds ... the month, starting with my first round on January 12th and the next few ... target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and ... look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... mine. I had everything going for me and I knew it. That feeling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Note: Writing here is joint between Rona and Paolo, except when ... students and will keep them on track for graduation.” After the first year ... departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  between MITese and "regular" English. And beyond that, I also want to ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at ... cultivates relationships between students and researching faculty; among the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for a few minutes. 12.52 pm: Caragay and I head out from EC. Our lunch ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... ends. I thank my professor for a good semester and leave. I have a 1 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  Biological Engineering. (Good references for checking are CourseRoad and the ... ; for example, register for eight classes and drop four of them. As a ... explanation for your advisor ready if you plan to take overlapping classes, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... less stressful and more fun. It only took me about a week of 1-2 hours of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  does work for me.  I also want to learn more EE and CS now! And I have 1-2 ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... before her decision!"]enough,[/annotation]and they were, for the day of. I ... the ground for an hour and then go home. At home, the first thing I did

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... flipper mechanism itself is between 200 and 300 pounds (with a 45-pound dorm ... week to build and was up for another week after that, and the students

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  clothes in the middle washer; and requests for empty gallon jugs, superglue ... typo. Class years are wrong for anyone who took a gap year between when they sent an email and when I retrieved their data, or for people who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... vertical miles can your team climb? Oh-- and you're climbing between the ... fifth floors of the east building and used the 12 ovens to parallelize the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  simultaneously true and proudly misleading. Successful conversations between tired ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  love mine, and tend to switch between sitting and standing every hour as ... a case) Spotify (for background music) I split Safari and Sublime ... chunks for writing blog posts since anything less was insufficient and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I ... zillion articles for nature newsletters, and goes running all the time (I ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  Macgregor Convenience for my morning Froot Loops and 20 oz. Mountain Dew. The ... building 56 Athena cluster to check email and print readings for classes ... am trying to get Adam to stop studying for his 16.06 test and start

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012