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• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  to simpler times, where success for me was simply defined by good ... Kendall and Central squares to obtain food and given me a new appreciation ... waking up at 4 a.m. to stumble into the boathouse for morning rowing

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... summer means I get to do research! About a week ago, I officially confirmed ... that they would be erecting a new building dedicated solely to cancer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  ’re starting to read speeches by African leaders of decolonization calling for ... studies! It’s practically impossible for one person to optimize a UI, but a ... belonging to one of 31 body parts. A set of features are generated for each

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job ... existing code, and it was written by some person. Then I need to work on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  about 3 weeks ago) to get straight A's, but despised every minute of AP ... , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... , in fact, qualified and smart enough to get through it. I don't have a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• 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 ... planned out courseroad. I would have to find a new training environment and coaches if I wanted to continue my skating career. I would have to make new

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

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to ... sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a ... death. There was guilt that the last text she sent to me promised to get a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... school geometry by cheating off my dad. She came to 18.02 (multivariable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  to get busy for me and my fellow waiters. We spent the next hour almost ... looking for something to do, you virtually guaranteed to find something ... for the Skullhouse brothers and pledges to invite friends over to our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  ,[/annotation] or ‘monomyth’, characterized by a call to action, descent to another ... "]witnessed.[/annotation] I let the chatter go on for maybe ten minutes, then walked to the ... fanfiction of side characters in your own story, to get excited about the world

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we just create new ideas. Well...she was right. Physicist Joseph Henry said

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  be safe; and trying to have a good time anyway.  That isn’t a new narrative for a lot of people. This particular event just happened to be more ... should get down soon, while I was anticipating the danger. I asked him to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  want to learn about Islam. I ask her for a lesson. We get drinks, snacks ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , ultimately, it doesn’t mean much. It allowed me to get a break, see some new ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... train: #5, two hours and 51 minutes late listening to: Do By Friday It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... came back to campus for track practice with no other plans except to read ... ’s accent. Where is she supposed to be from? She sounds like she’s trying for

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives ... Housewifeformer™ and churned out three outfits for our new dog, Scooter (who ... the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  are a great resource for any worries about adjusting to college life) by ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... addition to providing opportunities for sisters to go out into the community

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... thought I would be giving all this up by coming to Cambridge. Seriously ... fascists!" Not surprisingly, he urged everyone to pick up fliers for an anti

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  in Boston after school, get an MD-PhD at Harvard, be married by 25 ... ="Computer Science"]6-3[/annotation] perhaps isn’t the place for me. I’ve decided to ... little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022