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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  she would have failed as an instructor if we are not able to contribute ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the ... , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  , do you want a fail proof way to know which bread and drink are yours ... So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  had intended to give mine to another relative but forgot to, and so they ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... definitely won that day - er, I meant to say that you, too, will soon be able

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing ... Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists ... your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... tried, the moment refused to hit me. Almost accusingly, I remember, she pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... song begins, arrows begin moving from the bottom of the screen to the top, and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  -shifting; while I was only thinking about how it might change me, I failed to ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  never failed to be astonished by lush foliage and volcanic mountaintops ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear ... right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  a relatively dishonest manner. Failing to recognize early that I was ... Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... ’s harder to create a set of terrible questions and failing student ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... country from San Francisco to Washington D.C., stopping at high schools to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Listen to this awesome, late 1950s song. Now try to picture me ... . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... personal enthusiasm levels inversely proportional to the temperature, though this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  failed 8.02 in the spring. But now this leads to a different thing: I'm a ... silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020