Search

Search Results

• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’). Like a lot of people, I act like I love to embrace change and go on crazy ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... , ice cream is ice cream and i’ll be happy regardless of what my choice is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook ... of my whining, because he shot back a link to this book title and said

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  and on the required tests. She earned an ACT composite score of 32, which included a perfect 36 on the math portion, and an SAT score of 2 ... didn't want to put any pressure on her." Ted Pounds knows what the school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  .edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly ... Thevenin and Norton circuits. One can turn any two-terminal circuit that consists of emfs and resistors into: an emf plus a resistor in series

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  come back and be on one of those Life After Course 9 panels that the ... the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... 't intend to take any computer-related classes, any engineering classes (hands-on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  've found myself scrolling through old documents and snippets of writing ... provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  teacher and suggest they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of ... students can participate on any day from November 6 – 17. If you have ... than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the ... again, so I thought I'd drop by and beat on some prefrosh. Also, campus ... hopped on the Orange Line to Haymarket. We popped out onto street level and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  a lot of lacquer. I put a Union Jack on my helmet and was really ... realized that they had large rockets on the back of their tank and a huge ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it ... might understand why. On the first day of classes, I had Intro to Biology

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  East Campus, home of the Emergency Pizza Button and the Motorized Couch ... and Interpretation of Computer Programs) test in 20 minutes and was not ... themselves on my behalf by wearing breadboard-style posters with John '06's and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  -overs and backwards skating. Unfortunately, on the 3rd day of class, I had just gotten my ears pierced and when I took of my helmet it snagged on ... You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... least, and that's something. I'm steadfastly refusing to take on any new ... and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... " to the end of it. "But it's black beans and rice flambé, Mom!" didn ... I can call Sicilia's and order pizza? (What?! It's the staple of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  good and ALL the seasons of rick and morty. all 17 of us on the new ... 1-4 again on my own, and then binged all of season 6 pt. 1 when it ... 'm working on a whole bunch of projects this semester, and every week that i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  (econ is a fairly popular HASS concentration), and I don't think any of ... will arrive between August 18 and August 20, and the events of ... August 21, and the events of those programs will be between August 22 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  is forward waltz, and i’m on the correct foot again. one two three, one ... ’s on the two beat, and i haven’t moved, and i take two quick steps back, and—one two three, one two three. i’m on the beat again. we dance for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  home eating, ice skating, eating, shopping, eating, and watching movies ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... should have been working…and catching up on sleep. Up until this morning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... and I each spent four hours writing three 12-bar arrangements of a ... equivalent class bases their curriculum on it. The omnipotent hand of Google

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011