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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked ... couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a ... down as hours in class, hours in lab, hours outside of class. Hours

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  <3) a very intense discussion about MIT’s culture in an empty Sloan ... okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7 ... , which I didn’t realize because I accidentally pre-registered for 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  little nicer before screwing in some light panels that I repurposed from an ... don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it was likely from remembering the one we had in my 7th grade science

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

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when ... be an EMT. If it gets overwhelming, I can give up helping others through EMTing for a bit to help myself. It's all figured out, right? Where

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  them, so I’m glad that I made the time for makeup in 2020, especially as ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make time and space for schoolwork and extracurriculars. I told myself that I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... pandemic disrupted, but here in Cambridge, vaccination rates are high, and so ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  like or be more than one thing for most traits. Anyone can, in theory ... questionnaire. Most people are in the middle of the bell curve for most “traits ... (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... itself for the drop in comments: So what have we been talking about with ... .' For almost ten years, we ran a little social club out in front of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... ' reassurance and my own empathy for the difficulty in finding balance didn ... situation for another academic year. All the way back in April, Denisse was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  /or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high ... apply!), and one in the fall for ~1000 undergraduates. Our Fall hackathon ... ’re going to make happen in five to six months’ time, and for many of us who

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... to MIT meant making new friends for basically the first time in my ... For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... academic career, I will sleep for an entire six months as soon as I receive ... as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis. A handful of the many awesome students: Nicole (an amazing young woman), Andrez (an awesome hands-on engineer), Nathan (already saving the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some ... for others if you’re struggling in a class, the people who help you out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class ... Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors ... walked into 26-100, an enormous classroom, into a throng of students all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  held a formal for us back in november"]Twenty Fourmal[/annotation] and ... ways and bad ways, and I have no idea what the next two have in store for ... class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  The original premise for this blog post was that I would dissect the bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020