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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  than I stood to lose by bringing him in. These are busy guys. But they ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam ... been completely foreign to some of them - and that’s okay. Because making ... would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  when necessary while also being able to place pigments down quickly. I ... grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  refer to rooms within buildings by their numbers. It's kind of bewildering ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  everything familiar to me. Until then, my summers had been taken up by academic ... “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I

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

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . (As you may or may not have realized by now, I’m going to make this ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... rushed to help by giving me a chance to guest blog for her, which is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of ... Learning"]TEAL.[/annotation] At first, I was really nervous to take this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  .1060, Software Performance Engineering. Thursday, 2:30 PM. Went to this class by ... I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle-making ... find coding events on campus, whether self-learning or learning to make a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  , find love, and make people laugh. i want to redo my personal website. the ... immediately to your left, and go-go curry straight ahead. all around are tv ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

          I was making the trek from East Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre ... measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to ... weeks. Python is easier to commit to since I'll be practicing it by ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  can choose to make some crazy meal (and have the time to do it). In the ... I no longer have to cook for myself. I haven’t yet decided whether or ... dining hall three times in the past two years, instead favoring to use the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  & Tarot Reader By Night What're you listening to? Lots of smooth ... Training & Style Icon What're you listening to? Film scores by Thomas ... wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr ... wanders by to look at the sky and the neighboring rooftops: And last night ... to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by ... want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to make the world a ... part of this community, we can no longer just want to make the world a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  digital tools wisely and humanely to help make a better world. To be clear ... methods — specifically, by access to large data sets and the tools to learn ... establishment of a school of social and humanistic education to make sure that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018