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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... days ago I got back from Ireland, where I gave a seminar and served as the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Why yes, I am rewatching Star Trek: Enterprise! [caption id ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  . There are few projects I have worked on at MIT that have truly defined my time here thus far. So far on the blogs, I have written about two of them: the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Don’t tell, but I’ve never written much poetry before. I read poem ... little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  Yesterday, I finished my UROP. I cleaned up my bench, double ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  by Donald Guy Oh I wish that I were back again at Tech.. Well, we ... seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , I mean that I'm not attending the last two classes I have today, because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I'm mostly excited. Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... stressful, believe me, I'm applying to graduate school and every day I call my mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can't honestly say I've been to every house, I've been to several, and the rooms ... this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I confused anyone. I wasn't trying to give examples of things that got people

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with my friends and their family. every saturday or sunday my freshman fall—i can no longer remember which—my problem set for 18.701 (algebra I) was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  **I've been having computer issues for a few weeks, so this entry was written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science. I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical engineering and robotics because I was also interested in those things. At one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has ... oh boy this is by far the best piece of technology I interact with on a regular basis. I love music. I played various instruments for 13 years of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  “I think I should have a midlife crisis a little earlier,” I said today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never ... endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  TEN REASONS Why I Fell in Love With Madrid: 10. I love the Metro system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who would always give me free muffins just because I'm Taiwanese and I try to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  Probable Futures. I am from the desert. I was once enamoured by green trees but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a mountain range of saguaros. Sah-wah-rows. I am from Arizona, which means it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023