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• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how ... 's no way around it. After a couple years of getting comfortable MIT gives you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their own worlds. 3 More than all of this, solo adventures are a way to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which ... wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of ... green tram aaaaand nighttime colosseum   Glad to have a new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  the year after that. So, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to try to get a ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... (Monday) I was heading to a lecture hall early to study all day and lo' and

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  open the window by epsilon” Translation: “I’m going to open the window a ... , but rather numbered. Or that we introduce our majors by number (“I’m a ... . It gets much worse. However, as the token non-math person of a very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school ... conveniently located next to the floor closet. And Carenina '03, a senior ... headed straight to Med. (Extracting DNA from mouse tails with a bladder

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  . My dad handed me a fifty-peso bill and told my to get a haircut, saying ... honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... way I want to change the world!) :D But first I need to a Master

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report. I sent ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... bus back to MIT for Nightmarket. This event is co-sponsored by lots of ... each paid $2 to get in, and were handed 5 meal tickets. In addition to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... . Let me try to catch up on a few questions (while I'm still backed up ... ." Often I'll get questions like, "If student A did thing Foo, and student B

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ...  that person who gets a 99 and says they failed. 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials ... getting burnt by majoring in something I thought I might struggle in. Did I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... : the mathematical knowhow to take a bunch of scary symbols and boil it ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated ... determined by the players; each player will submit a value from 50 to 300 with ... not determined by an objectively "correct" answer. Instead, a winning

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  precious time we spend after classes together twice a week to sing, setting ... several weeks ago, slowly adding to it by browsing bookstores on my birthday ... take a nap. i think i'm exhausted: i think i need a week to turn off my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  's something you've never tried before. It’s an amazing time to get a head start ... results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  've come to recognize my podmates by their eyes and foreheads, despite having ... complain every time I have to walk to lab.) The dining hall serves a ... through a phase of eating ancient grains -- or I tried to, but they take

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021