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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  to reflect an aspect of human cognition in some way. Unfortunately, I ... the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... 's over"). I can't overstate how wonderful it was -- like a third way of ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  constellations of objects and events in time.” Without spoiling too much, I ... schools’ departments) I went to this event (and most of the other ones in ... than half of the world's population now live in urban areas :0), and I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my ... past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I ... naps in the grass. Go on spontaneous road trips. Stroll through city

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  of great wars in the future. Historical cases include World War I ... : What can I say? There are few topics as important as this. Meanwhile, in ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  one of those boring spots in the background? I am a firm believer that ... watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... . =================================== In high school, I spent a lot of time playing music. I was playing my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  Spokes America, I can tell he'll get a lot more out of that than an ... I was accepted and I lost in both of them. Yup, I was just a dude who ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... exactly what sort of healthcare they'll be getting at MIT. I've also added a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  procure it. You can buy fancy clothes and blue steel at the mirror in the ... different way of doing it wrong. Sorry Chicago. You can confide in other ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact ... all of the places I'd be traveling in the next five days, some of them

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was ... made me think of the song in the first place when I was brainstorming

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  half of last week, I basically lived in Libraries and Study Rooms for the majority of my evenings. I had a big paper due in 17.40* last Tuesday, so I ... library, and that's why I chose to do the majority of my work in them

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  of the prettiest I've ever seen. we spent a while being idiots in the ... my ears could handle it, I saw a bunch of people buy earplugs so they ... 's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. He ... towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  city, and a lot of it is made out of concrete. This does not mean you can ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was ... the end of the semester, I found myself doing more in a way that didn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021