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• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... .UAR[/annotation], which really just means that I was waffling on my ... resets my “send help I am So Lost Right Now and I Know Nothing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 ... mimic on campus since students no longer have access to kitchen spaces due ... 's really interesting and was a great way to kick off the FLC's focus on COVID

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... white shadow on all the trees. In the summer the cold settles between the valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  columns to maximize the amount of space used. Color coded headings also help ... concept might appear on a test. Once lecture notes have been copied down, I ... and formulas on their limited sheet of paper that they have condensed

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  from your rank list because if you do not match with any school on ...  you'd like to add. Note your full name and "QuestBridge" on ... , some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis. Completing an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... to me was: What do you want to work on during junior year? Junior Year ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... :23pm on Thursday, May 12, my work at MIT was done. Like many other ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... nights ago, I cut across Killian Court on my way home from campus. It was ... evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... session on the Dot being held by a mutual friend, Christian Ternus '10 ... hooked on high dynamic range (HDR) photography, so he had been roaming

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last, though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet ... and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... 'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about that helped me navigate this ocean. I intended this post to be ... helps inform how you choose classes at MIT or beyond. There are three ... ="MIT technically allows this. There's no cap on the number of classes you can take

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  't completely easy. I still had to ask for help on questions, but when explained ... . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , there were peers who were spending more time on the psets and not finding

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... . Some ISEF alumni, like Feng Zhang, are even on the MIT faculty. I got into Phoenix around 3AM on Thursday morning after a long, delayed, and

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

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the ... did not wake up on time. Whoops. [carousel image1="116815" image2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  above into a wine glass on the ground holding two ends of cable, thus ... even after two watches. with everything going on—the music, the sound of ... equipment before class. the Stata R&D pub, on the other hand, was an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a ... the collet on a mill gets stuck. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  clubs and this entire flavor of career. I’m still on the mailing lists ... on free food and branded merchandise for members.” Taking non ... decided on 18.032. I dislike black-boxes—a system that functions with opaque

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  and discusses a lot of interesting topics on how AIs use maching ... our own!) computational model and write a paper on it, which i'm excited ... the textbook for the class, and lo and behold, its super helpful. if i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019