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• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for ... would probably sell her soul for coffee. But I didn’t become a regular, a ... living on East Campus for a semester. But then I came back to MIT, and as

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  'm no longer UAVP. I wrote a column for the Tech, with a lot of emotional ... found a good outlet for activism. It frustrated me that sure, I could go ... don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... actually took this for granted until I arrived at college, and found out a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom about a recently completed water-channel bridge in Germany. Isn't that ... and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has ... [annotation note="'43 Orders of Magnitude' which is a sort of humanities-for ... -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  here are a few things that I've learned. 1. Shop around for the TA that ... who write the pset. Seminar XL These are mini recitations held for a ... freshman spring semester I signed up for both a 6.01 and 6.042 tutors and it

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  , "That's so much cheaper/better for me since I'm a huge procrastinator ... , for example. Getting a 5 on the AP exam is not the same as passing the ... Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay ... France, the is a daunting question of "Great, I'm finished. What now?" For ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  Barlas Radia Perlman had a solution for an information routing problem ... for a solution after I had just given them one, which really irked me ... , now a distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems specializing in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  here, I've only been officially blogging for a couple of months, and I ... anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... wading through it* OMG guys! You made a CollegeConfidential thread about

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... the screen. My CS internship already involved me staring at a screen for ... moment with no concern for precise detail and composition. I simply trusted

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  comfy chair and a computer, what more could an eleven year old kid ask for ... my school for the position of "Graphic Technician", fancy speak for a ... a cubicle, doing what I love.   Tune in next Monday for the epic

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new ... MyMIT is designed for you, so you should have a hand in its design. All ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... Planning and Computer Science for brevity"]Course 11-6.[/annotation] MIT is ... experimentation without… accidents. Sometimes, there aren’t bananas for a strawberry

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for ... it was, for a pset) and for the rest of the class, he immediately ... gotten stung by a bee. "I just didn't own a phone for a couple of years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... was all a little much. Fortunately, I met some other awesome prefrosh! Becca '12 and I at Meet the Bloggers Tim '12 and I stuck in a knot at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... . This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011