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• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  want to get better. That's something that I failed to grasp for so long ... 'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... , why am I writing this post? Why am I sharing it to you, rather than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  something about trying (and failing) to apply to grad school. My point is ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  your psets and tests and it's much easier to fail a faceless name. Office ... 've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  worth it. I take it all in and try to just do it. Sometimes I fail ... It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the ... it to my family to spend at least one week at home with them before

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent ... forget to blog that last one? My bad, guys), but I don't think this time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... . Well, I started to, but every post inevitably ended with a positive ... 't equipped to deal with that many support services. I knew it was best to go on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... imposter syndrome feeling. I've tried to shift my focus from what grades I get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  whom one might not initially consider to be allies. Not only was Abigail ... You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT facilities and programs with small cards to denote an LGBQT student's first

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into ... ’s the inside via webcam shots… Someone decided to put all the pages from ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

    Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... personally can't stand Guy Fieri), so they (read: Dad) begged to have lunch at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  -setting even through they're on Pass/No-Record, and I think to myself, "hahahaha ... anymore," which leads to internal sobbing and then I'm jolted back to ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  (3) failing to reach the d-section of the alphabetized ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the ... positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by ... various communities of the world who need MIT and whose voices call out to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005