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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... LEDs would declare it alive, I was researching communications protocols

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  much as I expected I would in high school, but I do go into the city ... disclaimer in case the title doesn't show this, I am writing this ... concept since last summer, in Denmark, when I realized that every mechanical

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think ... else, or just talk amongst yourselves in the open thread below. I've got to drive up to a meeting in a few hours, and I've got a sprint

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a ... 're probably trying to jam it in. Slide it in." "I AM sliding it!" "Do you see

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  :05 PM. I was really nervous that I would really struggle in the class, but ... , meaning I dropped that immediately because there was no way my grade would ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... and the walk-ins area. (Normally there are people around, but I took ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  /hoped MIT classes would be like before I applied. Several of my friends are ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this ... deep learning), and I wish that more of them would make it into the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my ... make for you in Paint. Yes, dear, I do know how to use Mathematica, but I'm in lab right now and I don't have it on this computer, so I figured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is that i decided this would be good for me. i am taking four math classes (which i will talk about in a later post) which are all fun! i am cooking

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  would enroll, percentage-wise), but generally it ranges. I'm sure they ... technology and engineering-related, that I personally would not have done other ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student ... move very far away (Boston). Before coming to MIT, I had lived in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me ... their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side ... -flopper. No opinion I held was ever set in stone. All it took was a conflicting

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  would have sprinkled holy water on it if I had access to some. If someone ... Institute," I must admit that I would have thought to try that. So after I ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  me, then I would be okay. And it worked, for a little. I was in ... do it anyway. In recent weeks, I've realized that I've been running. I run from the shitty things I did in high school. I run from the mistakes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put ... classes I took and reflect on how much I wound up liking them in the context

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... example, wrote: "I didn't know about the anime club. I would have never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  most fun: Denial. Keep in mind that this is just a sampling. I slept a ... featured puzzles were just some of my personal favorites. In a few days I ... would allow me to rearrange the rows in a way that would give more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... without the commitment, but then if I like it, would the MEng be a wasted degree since I would have a PhD as well? Right now, I think the answer is

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  what I would double in—mit only assigns majors at the end of the first ... pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023