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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to ... captions. (This is getting to be pretty challenging.) 5.12 - Organic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively ... changes us in complicated and difficult-to-explain ways. During CPW, many ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  's already broken - what's important is getting to the root of the problem in ... , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... of C. elegans, works in the lab right next to my UROP with the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus ... 's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for ... later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  side of the road for free water in paper cups then getting right back to ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college ... STEM and liberal arts. In another place, perhaps I wouldn’t have dared to ... in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  best. 2. Get a good night's sleep. Every night. I've been in lab as late ... Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in ... to step on your camera if you leave it there." "Okay, I'll put it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I ... class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  action or get involved and have an impact on what you want to change. I ... about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... why I would get so upset when strangers on the street in Ethiopia would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you ... lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  little... hypocritical, I know. But it happens. It's very easy to get sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  involvement that used to happen in the blog comments now takes place elsewhere ... ’s mission and role in people’s lives. So that's one thing that I'd like to ... college, I'm now beginning to feel "old" in that I realize my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into ... think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our ... , so we boiled them to get them to the texture from the video. But our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  potatoes. What did my mom have to endure to get to her favorite pizza in the ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a ... different, and you get to choose which one you live in. I now think this is ... being in a small program is a really easy way to get to know professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  was another huge success and an easy way to get involved in charity at ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... enough to participate in both in very different ways... SK Late Night

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011