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• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified ... ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , and I would pick one and work on it. With the endless opportunities and ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a ... 've always had students send in information about cool projects that they were

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing ... here in Boston. And then the third, the fourth....etc. Why exactly I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... in awe. I’d met many brilliant people at MIT before, but W.M. was on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  would disown sophomore college me for this. But I promise you, 9ams in ... , which I filled out. I wasn’t sure if anything would come in the mail, but ... am horrible at push-ups. I would never make it in the army for that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  would be admitted in the transfer process, but I personally know folks who ... wondering what actually goes on during it? In other words, what am I missing ... .mit.edu doesn't have built-in preview functionality, so I usually post once and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I ... summer, I've kept my summer goals in a markdown file in a Github repo. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I would never join. In addition to this, I've been making an effort ... process it. In December, I dual booted my laptop to run both Windows and Ubuntu, but decided I would never ever touch Ubuntu again after fiddling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  fully that I would only seriously approach a small number of them. In ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we ... we do. If you are interested in our music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your work. If you are interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  getting a triple would be a nightmare. But I got lucky because we all have ... Massachusetts. I’m really interested in [annotation note="6: Computer Science"]course 6[/annotation] and am thinking I will probably major in either

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  personal invention, but I could not send anything by the website so I would ... to send in a Mid-Year Report. One of MIT's application brochures says I ... still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006