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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  multiplies the list of ingredients by whatever fraction necessary to feed the ... "Introduction to Pulsars". Basically: classes inspired by my summer research ... , I make the trek across the river - it's refreshing to get off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  , after getting to a stopping point on a project at noon, I decided what I ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  need that exact word, you get your point across just fine by basically ... quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too ... . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I ... you down the toilet and drag you out by ...well, you get the imagery. At ... took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  limit by too much. Don't feel that you need to fill up white space; word ... . ------------------------------------- Edward wrote: "I wanted to send an additional recommendation by a close pal ... attempt at getting to know the whole student?" Absolutely. The more context

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  Next’s dining hall to grab breakfast, and by the time we’d finished ... (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it switched to just cloudy. I gave up hope. I resigned myself to an incredibly

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  pretty good description. There's nothing more to add, except to stop by the ... heading to the tunnels. If you're interested in learning more about/getting ... CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  getting in,[/annotation] and when we got to the courtyard we found that the ... increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4 ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  energy drinks so that by the ridiculously late hour I was supposed to show ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  ’Hare airport was delayed, and it took over fourteen hours to get to ... to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat ... sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n). ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new ... how to breathe underwater. When W.W.W. returned home, exhausted by the ... month-long intensive Introduction to Architecture and Environmental Design

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... student. An upperclassman. By definition, he is currently super busy. Even ... complex analysis and goodness-knows-what-else to do that. So, you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  up the group. But I couldn't let it get to me. I tried to detach my ... to do well. So I needed to get better shooting one-handed. And I threw ... worse than the first day we shot one-handed. Instructor Conti came by to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  and getting to witness the vibrant art, poetry, and theater scenes of ... subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022