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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the room and that we were absolutely not allowed to touch anything. Anyway ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded ... :45 last night warning me to stay inside, I couldn't really process what was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... final projects Getting fat Getting sick and not being able to take ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any kind of preferential "bump" to students who apply to MIT during Early Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  or there may be other reasons for u to not even sending a reply ok ... or chat about, feel free to contact me. I'm certainly not averse to ... whether or not I want to do a varsity sport come fall (and yes, crew is one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  not realize how good I had it. Last year, I saw Of Montreal (twice ... it's an important part of the culture. Students do not apply to ... to your major and how many people within your year in your major want

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... always famous alumni. How did he become this year's speaker? It sounds ... he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  everything--classes, activities, applications--and she doesn’t know how to ... before, too. I don’t think there’s anyway for MIT to not be hard, but I ... about. Groups where your obligation is not a grade, but your commitment to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  and trying to figure out exactly how Jackson flung his paint. Every once ... under an international scientific embargo not to talk about anything ... laughter, at how absurd the last minute had just been. Dr. Nahn, to his

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but ... twist behind my back, I thought my life was over. Not being able to walk ... known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a ... thrilled to hear from them and said "Oh hi! How is everyone?" His immediate ... I'm not sure exactly how the emergency response system works in other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post ... -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  don’t fully get this one"]fourth order tensor[/annotation] is, how to ... structure of the last class. Although it is nice to not have a looming ... ’s important to know how these different factors affect engineering performance

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... is hard to not look like a little baby city new person when you pull

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  . They won't all be as spectacular as 2.009 but they tend not to disappoint ... FOOD in bright red text. To be fair these posters are targeted to ... into the future and a look at what you might be working on if you go to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  teach us how to dance. After we learned some (not so) basic steps in lines ... ) -- other people were not so conventional. So how did these historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  bought it from were super impressed that we knew how to take it apart. It ... not ideal.) The next day, we spontaneously decided to rearrange all of ... to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  'm not dead yet :) It's definitely possible for a vegan to survive! It ... close by, so it's not too much trouble to get fresh fruits and vegetables ... problems - and if you can bring that to MIT, you can not only survive here

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  .022 psets. (Still not sure how I pulled that one off.)   Yes, that is ... to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part unsolicited advice/storytelling. If that’s not your cup of tea, maybe this will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for ... students how to do experiments. Maybe a parent who is uncertain whether a

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008