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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019 ... , and I look forward to it. A lot of reading, though. :-) 21F.302: French ... 's course is taught by Cathy Culot, a native French speaker from Brussels. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... search. To recap, here's how my internship hunt went: Rejected by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... school. You want to capture this moment, a very regular day, yet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... —at least 4-5 hours a day dedicated to programming. That was a good decision

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games ... journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and ... corporate partner, and a $5,000 budget. My team’s problem was to figure out

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... . Surrounded by booths and booths of companies and corporations felt like a total

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I'll be out for most of June on paternity leave, but will still try to blog when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... honest, I'm becoming quite discouraged now. First I was too late to get ... might have been a little imposing to have Schrock as a professor, since

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of ... /No Record is a great time to do this – to adopt the “I want to be busy, but ... to get work done. I found that the best test of whether I really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... have the wrong place. We try a different route, and I get my phone out to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous ... events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you ... of the warm spell by being outside as much as possible. I saw a group ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games ... school. But when you move to Boston, it's really hard not to be a Red Sox ... or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury ... from Newbury St. all the way to Haymarket. It was a lovely day--a bit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn ... cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... accessible only by car.  My research also revealed that getting your skydiving

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012