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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  MIT expects you to learn how to use the programs engineers use at work ... other schools almost always already know how to use the programs. (You ... Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on hand for help. 2. Read Melis' most recent entry on how she made her ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . On Saturday I got some basic instruction on how to use a lathe, which ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... 't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  optimism; I was going to put it on hold for 3 months and reassess how to move ... revenue 3 years from now? Why aren’t you figuring out how to keep the ... about how to lesson the loneliness of social distancing, and ideas about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  reached the trailhead, I fully realized how awful this was going to be. And ... could have two amazing options for how my life could go, and to do one, I ... My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and slowly “pruned” (idk how else to describe it). Here, potters can add ... essentially allows you to see how well you did–if your walls are even, if the ... to try to hold a little ceramics pop-up fundraiser. I really love how

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  addition to not giving up, though, I also constantly made plans on how to get ... things differently the rest of this year than how I started it. I want to ... . I want to speak up more and learn how to speak up better--in other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  tense?] So while others were attending orientation programs on "how to ... how he got set up, and he directed me to the department's UROP office. A ... sources of help that are available to MIT students. I remember exactly how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  said. He then went on to explain how, very quickly, he realized that just ... went on to ask how they had felt the teaching of Physics has changed in ... by describing the feeling as magic. He explained how he struggled to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  take another  semester to see how we’re feeling about this dilemma ... waaaay too much and wrote about how we had to miss the annual dorm ... just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... template, which I proceeded to format very badly because I didn't know how to use LaTex. Not knowing how many booths we can realistically talk to, we

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises ... products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of ... how we can use various practices and tools to manipulate and analyze

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  figured out how to partition my Mac so I could play it again. Going back and ... taught him how to get it on his Mac, which might have been a mistake ... and all I ever seem to think about is the past and how care free I used

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  didn't notice how gingerly I walked. Eventually I went to MIT Medical ... started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  anywhere else -- is going to be choosing how you learn about and engage with ... students who share your motivation to learn how to solve hard problems and ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  [annotation note="Weird how the name isn't related at all to the action, I know :P ... in person, or just how much "mathematical maturity" I need to take it ... worked with copper so far, so I'm excited to learn how to work this much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in which he uses legitimate, scientific tools and data to guess at impossible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  thing I identify with when I think about who I am and how I want to be ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  perfect (a few random bugs I really do not know how to fix) but making my ... do feel rust because of how long it's been, it's been so fun to think ... means I need to learn so many things: how to conduct, listen carefully to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021