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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  to work. And I failed. Getting the check scanner to work is a tricky ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  tried Mystery Hunt for the first time, but epically failed to help the ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  Resourcefulness Initiative Amen. To all of those. And then I won a Ratheon mug and ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... , enthusiasm is good," said Aaron. "But you need to find internal enthusiasm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  build apps with them." Confusion persisted. "I fail to understand your ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... into your 'camera'. To save computation, you cast 'light rays' in reverse

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  me actually fail"]but there's not way I failed.[/annotation] I went to ... transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  for someone to try and fail there. they believe this reasoning applies ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  emotionally over with, so I'm not as scared to fail again. I know it's good to ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... -bucket-list thing to do.  But, we also didn’t want to UROP just to UROP. We wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  the initiative. Don't be afraid to change your mind. It's great to ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year ... best to make this decision post-CPW when you've formed your own opinions

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  , initiatives to get young women interested in computer science in Italy, an ... From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my ... institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  and I had initially feared. On the contrary, we managed to hit all our ... from a laptop without any trouble but were initially unable to send or ... field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023