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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  , it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going ... voices in sci-fi/fantasy, and the importance of story. On good weeks you ... tools piled high on the shelves. The place smells of metal shavings, and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  research on what the VR trends would be in 2017 and found out that a lot VR ... kicking in. It's one thing to follow the news on the Internet and tweet at ... centered on virtual reality. The top movers and shakers of the VR field would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the ... , at ETH there is more of an emphasis on the final examination, and less of an emphasis on psets and assignments — which can be good or bad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i ... , because i'm graduating, and i can't support this forever. i'm kinda worried ... , iris and the giant, shapez.io. i had one final exam, for 24

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  the clock both on and off the field, whether it be academics or ... night having dinner and finishing up school work for the day. Isaiah: On ... drawing near, not because the temperature is heating up, and not even

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... . Notice that my handwriting is not that bad. Here are pages two and three, four and five, six and seven, and eight and nine. Nine pages! I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  list of meetings can be found here. And with that, I'm off to West Palm ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real" O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  I was reading back over the last two entries and realized I may have ... graphs. If it can be made into an Excel spreadsheet, I have not only made ... wake up, I record the time I fell asleep and the time I woke up, as well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  them either way. You can check out the MIT's page on housing for more ... – and the walls in Simmons can be undulating and curvy. The person I ... are the best.” On advice for students: “Be friendly, and take a few

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... early 1900s, MIT was quickly outgrowing its Back Bay campus. The leaders ... the island was that it could house MIT’s campus and extend Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... , and put the stickers on, assembly-line style, with each person doing a ... in the meantime, hot dogs and sodas are being sold in the courtyard

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  excitement and optimism. We're recharged to take on the semester again, excited ... interned in that district the summer between my First and Second year. And ... . To get some headspace, and reflect on the semester and year. To have

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  sticker printer at the IDC and refraction cat got to hitchhike on her print ... on campus (all documented on his Instagram page), and welcomed prefrosh ... submitted lines and viewers voted on them. "Just the 2 of us is <3 [less

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  always technically a pset that could be worked on or a test the next week ... class to do psets, find the notes on Open Course Ware and review those, or ... living alone, if you are not on the meal plan you have to make your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  International held elections in the past week or so, and I was there for both. I ... So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . -- There are murals on the walls! You can paint on your own walls and ... cool things they're doing on display and exaggerate them - there can be a ... much going on and you can't be a part of all of it. + People tend to not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was ... shows just how funny and cool and kind and considerate they really can be ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... . Not everyone can get into this school, and besides, it's not the first ... copious contact with fine conversationalists on the outside, and generally

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that." and then i started taking the class. and i had to solve that problem ... needed to learn it. and i had satisfied the prerequisites, and i had spent

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023