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• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  final exams. Here at MIT, we're only granted a paltry four-day weekend ... all the things I've been up to -- and there is some studying, I promise ... working on is embracing spontaneity a little more, which has... uh... never

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  could tell you about Ring the Alarm, the dance show that my team is ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  The world looked very different today. The presidential election is ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about ... solids. David Bowie echoes through me as I hear, "Planet Earth is blue

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  ’ve been procrastinating). That is, until I found an exhaustive list of ... your body is saying, “Can we do this?? No, we can’t!!” (Also quick ... over you, and all you can do is pass the ball. It’s hard to see past the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  : what am I doing this semester? MIT has many urban horror stories about ... bound is your sanity.) Here's the anticlimax: I am not one of those ... .851: (Grad) Advanced Data Structures, taught by Erik Demaine, who became an MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . The German emperors. Actually, their awesomeness is debatable. So ... about this town is that it’s 1.5 hours away from mine. So nevermind ... . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch ... stroking for the day, the real reason is because today was so cool, so ... rank it up there with the Black-Scholes model. (don't know what that is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and hearing your thoughts, whether supportive or critical, is always ... haven't often feel this way at MIT, so I was enjoying it. Ulysses is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is a pretty good sign -- it means the department is excited about your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to provide the first 10 base 16, since hex is the way to go. 0x0. Lonestar, My Front Porch Looking In. Yes, the first one is country! Country isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  that felt has difficult for me at MIT before is that I'm not very ... have been, since I applied to MIT as a Course 20, but this is the first ... Hello! It has been a really long time since I posted :') My goal is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write about your life, which seems easy as pie, but everything you write is ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  ). I'm not sure if this is something I picked up from others or if it's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... if there's anything I've realized it's that MIT really truly does not

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  Engineering major (which is new to MIT), Brain and Cognitive Science research ... songs that they learn from their fathers. She loves her UROP because it is ... is replicable because bird song could be more easily studied if a bird

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  ="i probably had already heard of it but this is my first recollection of MIT ... narrative is that even being a valedictorian "isn't enough" to get into MIT ... . I decided to take more time with my MIT application and ended up

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... that came from visiting MIT the first time.   Looking back, there ... , traveling alone is also an experience that I think can change the way you see

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  Carin '13. Better late than never, though, right? Here it is at last ... a poverty action project sponsored by the Public Service Center (http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/) and the Global Poverty Initiative (http://gpi.mit.edu/). MIT hadn’t had

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... area is big and all my friends are far away. on weeknights, we get off ... calendar event! why is it different, then? is it just the culture that makes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  considering how little time I devote to weeb pursuits while at MIT is pretty ... man[/caption] Yeah, uh...all I can say is that everyone at MIT met the ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  planning my classes, so the firehosing that MIT is well known for hasn ... helpfulness that is prevalent in the MIT community makes this transition so much ... MIT is starting to feel like home already.

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018