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• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start looking too late in the year), she asked me if I was okay with starting in ... experiments in AP Bio, I spent most of the term learning basic lab techniques

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  something engraved at danger!awesome is insanely simple. I walked in and told ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend loves wooden puzzles, and so I went with a wooden puzzle box: a box

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... from the side, in which case you would have collided with it at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was ... out as bad as Andi did, but I was flopping around quite a bit in the ... for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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