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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I ... comments) as soon as I can. Also, I do expect that next year's freshman class ... , but I will make an announcement one way or the other when I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don ... be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... can do anything I want and she is powerless to stop me, I still think ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic ... -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer of 2005. First of all, I’m running the Boston Marathon in April! I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  ! On more than one occasion, I was the only person in the theatre during ... ." ArtBeat can feel slightly awkward for a poor college student, and I have ... Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... , cramming in the few details I wanted (and needed) to remember. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  . I hope that, by the end of this year, I can find definitive peace in ... I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  senioritis in high school, but i think i have it now. i can think of many ... enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... : boston/cambridge/mit really does feel like home right now because in my mind that's where i'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... 't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... any effort whatsoever (yes, i did go fratting in pajamas more than once ... practicing daily dialogues on the way to Chinese class i took Chinese II in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run ... When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014