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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... is also very important.” -Aisha Wang “My PSET or exam was always on the back of my mind, and that really prevented me from really enjoying

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... this summer and that I should perhaps fix the formatting of my résumé and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team. More about that experience here. After I left, my team stepped up their ... value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in

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

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... long strip of paper. If I took a pair of scissors to my data and tried to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... 't written about my classes yet, so I'll give you a brief rundown of my courses ... offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house ... of a variety of different subjects. Because of the small size of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  Gann '00 for correcting my memory less than 20 minutes after I posted this ... only a freshman. Now, granted, it was my mountain bike, which is way too ... % of the dishes contain shrimp, which makes me throw up a little in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  technical prowess. This year is the largest technical jump we’ve made in my ... cross-functional team. What I’ve learned as an engineer My advice boils ... must first be a good engineer. During my time at MIT, especially in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  Cross-posted from my blog, which is where I write these days. One If ... tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision ... tell I listened but my pessimistic brain don't help, ooh If I could put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and ... loaded my plate, turned around, and was briefly catapulted into the ... -making opportunity" kind of way. So, I pushed down my fear and approached the table of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  be to say that there didn't use to be. There used to be (from my ... and 43rd. Reasonably, I cannot walk through walls to get to my ... obvious when it isn't. And this, is a problem. One my class tries to remedy

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... exactly the right outlet to contemplate on my experiences here. I sit down ... class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  from Kendall Barbers. George, my barber, mused about how long my hair's grown. I told him that my last haircut probably happened last summer. He laughed. He was apologetic for taking so long to cut my hair, when it had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other ... “basically logic.” My political philosophy papers have contained calculus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  very interesting to read. So today, I thought I’d try my best to just tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... one place — in kitchen appliances, for example. And the lesson for my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country, I made good friends from MIT that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, my ... rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a ... Technology and Dispute Resolution (Ethan Katsh, my undergraduate thesis advisor ... proper Dutch experience.     My AirBnB loft, laptop

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... staff and my fellow Youth Advocates were amazing to work with. And today ... the actresses, so I really wanted to join. Best decision of my winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , how to navigate the seemingly unfathomable internet and hone my voice ... and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... at the chance.  My first casual interview went well, and I scheduled a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013