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• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  , comes up to me as I'm headed back to the tent for debrief, comes up to me ... shouldn't ignore!  Want to go eat hamburgers for breakfast?  Go ahead.  Want ... a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  : Find a way that optimizes this situation for amount of time available ... right for me. I’m starting to realize more and more that it’s ok to do ... don’t want to treat it like a technical class; I don’t have time for 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT ... they'd hire me. They asked me to come in for pre-employment testing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  which are all pieces I've been kicking myself to read for a while ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  blogs for many years might remember that i've been writing love poems to ... listen to. i just have so many playlists for like literally everything that ... put to very good use this quarantine, where i can run for hours in cold

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  a crap ton of lectures and assignments to catch up on. i couldn't work ... my pen to draw anything for myself in months. i've been thinking about ... the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  which contain reflective holograms, whose properties are due to none other ... Armstrong? To be fair, we probably discussed this in recitation for about 20 ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  with no regard for other people’s expectations. So success in writing, to ... flip themselves inside out. To release the mess they contain—to organize ... to spare for, like the fine control over facial expression, gesture

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... the library. Oxford makes you adhere to a dress code for exams ... ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... for the rest of my life; i just had to focus on brushing for the day i ... a walk, you only have to resist that urge for a few more minutes and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  believe that no experience available to me in the States would have been ... to be a model example for dealing with border spaces between cities ... Architecture & Planning students to Brazil, China, France, Germany, India

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  to this blog post :) (Hence the title) Also, for more on maslab, I ... access to the online grading system for that class anymore, since I'm no ... experience for me; it brought out a quality in me that I hadn't had to call on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  northern Wales, so that’s where I got shipped to this IAP!  What is Wales ... of time 3 main constraints for my envisioned project:  I needed to ... up to make my life easier, but my desire for every student to bring

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  . Course 6-2. I registered for, among other things, 6.01 (intro to EECS). I ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... . (Though listings are far from the only opportunities available - if you

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  and interesting people who want to go to MIT. For me, it's a fun and ... the privilege to interview. OK, you are probably scheduled for an ... depth. We'd like you to be clearly destined for that next breakthough

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... another undergrad who was looking for new bio research to work on, and they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  look forward to. There’s still a ton I don’t have the answers for, like whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me ... apples. They’re just okay. It’s really all for the opportunity to frolic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... Relations team had to prepare short presentations for the President of the ... for us to monitor what was going on during the simulation. We wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... reps, and space for us to track our progress. Each class we would run ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015