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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  . Then down — for a long time — until I found the road again. There was a sign for the Cooky Monster Cafe, at the same place as a B&B I ... feels like such a relief. Warm showers are my second favorite thing, after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  'll spoil the punchline for you: I'm officially a course 8 major now. And yet ... intuition for a new topic. I love taking physics classes enough that I can see ... paths I see for myself. Course 8 also offers a flexible major, called 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  heads' start. No, I haven't started studying for a final that early, ever ... , exploring the city with a friend visiting Boston for 48 hours, dinner with ... created a list of topics I need to cover and material I want to revise. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  person for three years. There is a difference between leaving something ... finally received an interview from a small start-up. The interview went fine ... was expecting. "Um . . ." I wavered. I hadn't prepared for this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  instance, my supervisor has developed a computer model for predicting the ... approximation for gaze-tracking as a way of figuring out where people look when ... provide an important motivation and basis for our future work. Plus, the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  anywhere in Boston by T. 11. Like a plant, I need a certain amount of ... sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19 ... your worth as a person. 22. Grades are important. Sanity is way more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  't know of a better expression for this than "experimental physics boot camp". This class is notorious for taking a LOT of time. In partners, students ... Eric G. '14, who's been a good friend and pset buddy of mine for a long

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  everything I ate for a week. That also made me self-conscious, this time of ... at a moderate pace for maybe an hour or so. I'm not a fit person. My ... feeling that I can't imagine living for much longer than a few years, if not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly ... need space. You're not a bad roommate for going into your room once in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the ... 2008. It was a blast, I'm really glad I went. For those of you who won ... Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  , this is a physics problem. And when there's an important physics problem ... Late Night with Conan O'Brien. For the past month, Conan's show has been ... feud with Stephen Colbert (resolved in a battle royale), a German disco

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night ... you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... (like math, for me)?5 People throw around the word “passion” a lot, but ... they need to write a poignant story about a lifelong passion for their

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  is tomorrow morning. But go for a quick jog. Call up a friend or a family member and talk for a half hour. Watch an inspirational video ... ] is essentially a lot more important than whatever grade I get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... 've considered myself an environmentalist for over a decade, and if there's one ... the application process. Wow, what a fantastic program. Look for further

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  . I did some actual psetting for a while, then checked the time. 7:30 pm ... school (hooray for being a clueless little freshman released from the ... ’d come home and lie on the floor for a couple hours to slowly recoup my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  This year, we received 12,443 applications for freshman admission, a record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533 ... 499 students a place on the waiting list. Decisions (and, for admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is ... actually 9:47, but I stayed in bed for a bit longer so that it was about ten

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... school did not prepare you for a basic survival skill. Your group was the ... in the woods for an hour, meditating in a special way. You watched a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015