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• 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

  

  machines (or myself)! The course taught me that and more. The first couple classes were spent quickly going over how to use each of the machines and ... class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way towards physics and while passing the student center I realized what they ... to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I ... applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be ... automated system to reset it. Simply visit my.mit.edu and click on the "lost

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  , and stick it out until the next long break. I can make it if I just ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can be too sparse, office hours unhelpful, and exams far beyond the scope

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . task Z takes 1 hour and two people, and it can only be done after X and Y ... 2 hours of slack: it can be delayed by 2 hours without affecting ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in ... [/annotation] has often existed on a pendulum: a back and forth where the highs come ... gym, maintaining my social life, and I still get to fool around on the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  running late for class on Thursday. I parked my bike, quickly locked it, and ... have educational objectives. A quick perusal of the games on their ... recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  the big dome, and hayden was recently renovated & people can hang ... can drag the nodes around)! rui worked SO hard on that back button[/caption] ... on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  , Antifogmatic, came out last year, my little brother and I listened to it on the ... 've been listening to this summer, but I quickly realized (as the list ... the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  scary and awesome! On that note, my favorite website of the summer was ... fumble through a lesson, I’ll be aware of why. And we’ll work on it ... lights, and academic pursuits. In my parents' home, I have my sister, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  direction at one point led to me being lost and cold on an overpass above the ... calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  Kung Fu Tea, and then walked back to our respective dorms; on the way, I ... and a very cool design. But the ambience, the feeling of being part of a ... surely, and made some halting progress on the long-term projects. lt didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... ..” and the hopefully less familiar D - “Minimally acceptable..” F - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice ... ’s anything I’ve learned from being here this long, it’s that when the weather turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  Brothers Marketplace in the evening to stock up on milk and eggs. [caption ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... "]Chipotle[/annotation] than I expected, but that's fine. I've got a few quick and relatively

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i. i watched the anime attack on titan last year and liked it a lot ... commander of the protagonists sees this and shouts “keep on the lookout ... follows: each round, some bloons (balloons) appear on the screen and your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  thing with the wires starting in one order on the left, and then being ... process. Draw the next vector on each vertex if it’ll be “outside”, then ... order. We can stretch out the lines a bit, making the “left side” and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  on the blogs’ 10th birthday festivities. And while I hardly have any ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and ... post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level ... . Fortunately, each decision is made on a case-by-case basis and depends on your ... At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  passport, so they put me on a plane to Montreal the next morning, and the ... on the 23rd), I met Joe '(Grad Student) on my flight to Montreal, and ... hailed from the Chicago area, and so we chatted about course 16 things on a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013