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• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  on Mass Ave. It was days after Breonna Taylor’s killers failed to be ... I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks past, I observed that my calendar looked like it was about to suffer an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  ,000 holes can cause the foil to fail. Laurie began her UROP last spring and ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... fellow MIT students this year, asking how to make better, more meaningful

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  that but sometimes i need to remind her that failing just made me get up ... sweatpants. So many students are headed home :) I've decided to use this extra bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its ... weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  -and-drop Windows tool. f) Want to put a period after your middle initial in the MIT ... accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  hopes and dreams? Do you have the initiative and courage to make them ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  failed five Harvard classes. And I know I’m only allowed to take two non ... , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  course, if I start failing everything, I'll have to drop a few ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring Break here? I know, I have failed you all. Please accept my sincerest ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one ... extended period of time, causing my 6 AM flight to leave an hour late, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  , though, enough was enough. I went to 24.900, most likely failed my quiz ... to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007