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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  unmotivated. Career Fair lasts for three more hours -- all I'd have to go is get ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... model, so we got to go outside and take measurements under cloudy skies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the ... later taught LEGO robotics to middle schoolers at RoboCamp. After

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  applications, and knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... said that Foulke had flown to Birmingham, Alabama, last week to see Dr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  something i really want to get around to doing during my lifetime then i ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... 're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP ... had to do this on my own, so this isn't *technically* related to MIT but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  the world. The goal when we started was to get to 25% of the world ... cities. Against my protests to get to 800, we stopped at 25% as we had ... Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  you will see in some future blogs, not being able to get a full feel of ... signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... felt I was getting a lot of emails, but not this many by any means. It

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I suggest converting to Firefox.] [EDIT RELOADED: Manually fixed. My ... *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  can i get into MIT" My best advice to all of you is to read this website ... anything else) Also (I hope I get to ask 2 questions in one comment), I had ... , "I'm going to take the ACT without writing in September to get college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  , whether it’s having fun or talking to people or getting work done.  I’m not ... today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  a rare occurrence during this project. (I proceeded to get very hosed ... shorter, I made a concerted effort to try to get through all the flavors I ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... , pizza, and people standing around talking to each other. no dance floor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022