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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... about Things to do for the future get over imposter's syndrome ... , i just want to live in a library for a few months and read finish

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  all to see what works best for you. Once you’ve mastered the “downward ... dotted lines, which require you to rotate your wrist as you go along. For ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  person with some escaping her mouth.  I’ve been wanting to embroider for a ... to actualize many ideas I’ve had for a while now.    This was my ... for improvement, but I’m satisfied overall. I didn’t want to give up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for ... missing most of the pre-requisites for it. I hope to blog more about ... the work for them. P.S.: am I starting to sound like Buzzfeed yet?

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it ... have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  40 minutes for an on-campus information session. I had to very quickly run through things that I normally have more time to explain. For most ... Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  papers and desperately look for excuses to not start studying. A quick ... it also means that I'll be out of comission for 3 full days. Time to start studying. But first I need to find some music/tv/movies for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  shock for this reason. I'm the kind of person who is used to saying yes to ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that ... we are paying for some students' transportation to CPW; for the most ... registered for CPW, but on the part where we have to answer questions that help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to ... went back to my gcal for the past three weeks and I filled in every ... . (It's very forest-for-the-trees: I was so busy going from thing to thing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... point of being someone i don't want to be, if that makes sense? for ... onsite for widget went much better. in both onsites i got to talk to an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  . ---------------------------- That’s what has been hardest for me to remember. That not understanding ... ’t click for me. I had to think so much on the court I could barely move. I ... about the integral and not the rectangles for a minute. It’s reassuring to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... they could to make this a success. Nika made arrangements for us to be ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . You’ve probably got important reasons for wanting to transfer. My ... excellent resource for essay writing. To paraphrase Episode 6: How did your ... The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... shirt. Some things just don’t matter to me anymore. Go hike for 4 months ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily ... make me more embarrassed. All I wanted was for people to NOT SAY ANYTHING ... friends believe in me for reasons entirely unrelated to MIT. None of that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  to qualify for the Championship Event in Atlanta. But the competition ... need to go to a regional event and see for yourself. FIRST might just be the best opportunity for aspiring techies to learn not just how to wield

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... lot about what the future holds for me, if I'll get to pursue all these ... job I hate. But I know that's a lot to ask for. And I know this is so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  to a thousand more questions than the ones I came in looking for ... -oriented development, I’m rest assured DUSP has space for my mixed interests to thrive ... to use computational tools to make positive social impacts. If you

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  can finally (!!!) wear all my funkiest fits for the whole world to see ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... , because it's just so sad and generally emotionally taxing to think about

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021