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• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  Seminar[/annotation] and [annotation note="a career development program for ... one of the first classes in algebra so it is a prerequisite for a lot of ... as a tool for topology, it is interesting to look deeper into the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... / Ego / Superego-ness.Harvard Square itself is a gathering site for street ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  reasons for looking into a new field. Use every opportunity to show off ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... excited for this class. Plus, I could end up becoming a cool super villain ... Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  (Ojibwe) is a youth robotics inventor, activist, and advocate for youth who ... Celebrant, and a Candidate for Unitarian Universalist Ministry. Most recently ... undergrad, is a program leader for Stanford’s ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... studying for, what’s worse, my friend that studied a total of 2 hours gets 95 ... , i just want to live in a library for a few months and read finish

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  , where it's like, focus on a few things that are important to you ... . one of my recent personal projects is cfish, a web app for playing the ... brain discards the importance of the goal and leaves a vague feeling of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... 'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... EPIC, but was also a sweet finish to a hectic junior year where I took ... MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  see what's it's like, I'm trying to be a vegetarian for ... once every hour. Uh, look for a blog entry on it! ... This was actually a great concept for an entry, just a poorly-selected sample, huh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  rest of it. For example: I hate the idea of a "big city" because it feels ... I thought it would be a good fit for me. I applied to [redacted]. I ... to MIT because I thought it would be a good fit for me. I applied again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... a photographer for a wedding. Hearing my friend, the bride, talk about ... I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  relativistic dynamics[/caption] This experiment was a great start for the class ... this sounds, it was a very cool realization for me to see the concepts ... After two and a half weeks on relativistic dynamics it was time for my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old ... applicants formulate their own college applications. It was a MIT senior that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard ... -- one ready to metamorphose into a butterfly the other ready to cocoon for ... memorable and it's stuck with me for a while. I don't think this poem does the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  . It was a big, nervous change for me because I am not only change ... happiness. Alarm clocks I have two alarm clocks: a radio alarm clock for ... beanbag is much better. Corkboard for jewelry I have a lot of beautiful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I made a commitment with one of my friends--each week, we meet for an ... week, with a friend. This is, apparently, the most effective way for ... 's much easier for me to justify skipping a workout when all that's at stake

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  last race for Cross Country ever." There's a lot on the line. And then ... 't matter, they're just yelling for me to GO!-flashes by in a second. What ... could hear the cheers for only a few seconds before we passed the MIT

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010