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• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... leaving? the future versions of lives i can live will not merge into a ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... the best people I've ever met. I'm constantly in awe of how amazing ... .S.: I was told to make a Day in the Life of an MIT Student video to revive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... : Somewhere in the haze of fluid time trickling around Saturday night, I caved ... selection of some deeply profound queries that I implored: aliens in disguise

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... too. I won't divide you up into groups; after all, we're all part of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... night it rained in earnest. The unmistakable rustle of trees. I snuck out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... are some funny stories in there.) One of the 3 million reasons I love ... I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... torrent of science that is present everyday. =D --- In other news, I'm a ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... -question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite ... be rewarding in other ways, too; I've met some of my closest friends ... MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... causes where I can make a difference. While in grad school at UD I had the ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  I sat down to have my 3 hours of lecture spat at me right in a row ... College, I am one of 17 math majors (mathmos as the natives say) who is ... examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  “I can count the number of assignments I have left on my fingers.” The ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... tree). In Fresno, California, most of the time you can’t even see the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them ... semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Science this summer is kind of cool, but I can't wait to get back into saving the ... single so much as I do having my nice little bed tucked in the corner of my ... , even in the middle of summer. You don't get it in restaurants and you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  taking better care of myself. I can’t control the unexpected things in ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008