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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I ... --ambitious, since I’m leaving for Ethiopia on August 6th and was in China until June

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly ... balance in my social life, since I’m meeting new people while having more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  his University in Egypt where people would sing the songs he wrote. “I ... I got a postdoc here at MIT in physics education research,” he said ... . On the contrary, I would say the majority actually have some struggles

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... /early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... thought were acceptable answers. I barely finished on time and handed in my ... thinking "I'm stupid. MIT made a mistake in accepting me." But I often

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... surprising, but I’m willing to bet that in that year off, you’ll learn more ... year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and ... 10, 2008 The next morning, I head in to the office to run a couple of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical ... time. I honestly wish that I had kept track of how many hours I spent in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I ... behind in tasks that you would normally manage, like laundry and dishes ... embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had ... , but even as I’m tapping around and feeling both cards secure and in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  further until I was eventually in the deep end. When I jumped in, I remember ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that ... that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  , by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly ... close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... liver tissue than in static 2D tissue culture plates. What I spent a lot ... research projects; it's my turn! So since sophomore year, I've been working

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would ... in true MIT fashion, I leave the proof as an exercise to the reader ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... every other sentence in this paragraph.^_^) As I stated above, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

   did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that ... projects in the makerspace, and were [annotation note="“I didn’t know you ... cool. I don’t think I particularly want to work in any kind of wet lab

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... MIT grads in med school? Should I worry about that? And Lori said in ... were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006