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• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Rockwell Cage. I see a friend in the crowd. I tell him that I'm trying to ... don't. I take a nap in the ESP office instead. I wake up and head to ... in the midst of a busy time in the semester? What does it say to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... . stealing in that PUF used to scream at me if I didn’t leave an arm outside ... may be entitled to financial compensation in the form of “me buying a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  , really, but back in middle school, I used to read a lot of popular science ... ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I

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

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  ’ve found a way to use perseveration to my advantage. Maybe you (dear reader ... education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to ... programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you ... lost walking to Pika late at night in the cold, and was unsure how to use

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  yeast, using a novel process to find genes and other pieces of DNA that ... to understand science.” In general, he finds MIT students to be ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... shooting: But of course, being a hipster in denial, if there's two ways to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  Lenin used to sit there and philosophize, but now it's just a tourist trap ... down a side street, so I wandered up another hill to find a completely ... /hang out by myself year round. In a place where the goal is to wander and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask.In ... kids are often the same who will, in a couple of years, feel superior to ... said to a freshman tonight, who was trying to find a suitable second

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... had their parents as a major factor in the decision to work that hard ... something you should use as an excuse to goof off all semester. A lot of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  ."]digital communication[/annotation] in higher education from my time as a grad assistant to ... started paying a lot more attention to how they were using different ... community was making and/or saying, figuring out a way to form IRL

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... everything but sleep to write. I had a few from earlier in the summer, so I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit ... soils, it’s nice to learn just for the sake of learning, in a class ... genuinely interested in the subject that it’s hard not to get a bit interested

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  a learning instrument in classes are there to encourage students to ... equations or concepts per unit and then tested on our ability to use them in ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with ... A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... 't need to be said, but turns out going to lecture is very useful for ... Take a night off every once in a while. I have [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have ... This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already ... decrease in number of tasks, was that I was so busy that I forgot to use my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  this earth to live in LA, and i couldn't run more than a mile without ... put to very good use this quarantine, where i can run for hours in cold ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020