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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  , speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are ... , to make telephone calls - with often the entire class consisting of one ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make ... , the campers began to open up one by one and share their thoughts and ... things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  of Me Song: Past Life, by Jules Paymer There are a lot of parts to me ... is as close to true as I can make the statement. I don’t truly know ... that if I chose one of these Parts to chase after, I think I could make

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ; Overall the experience wasn't as traumatic as people like to make it out to ... 've procrastinated three hours by writing this, there's nothing to do now but start ... Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Gregor when someone came by to drop off Concourse books for someone else. I didn ... . The first Trader Joe's I ever went to was the one by Micro Center. I ... to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  , along with emails from our SCUFFY dorms, an initiative by students to ... signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... . Just for some context, this is what I mean by [annotation note="If you

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  , coordinating MIT and the schools to make this all happen.  And then, the ... It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  independent studies.  Also, just to make it clear, in case it’s confusing in ... you cry, makes you laugh. We wanted to learn how to do that. MIT has ... class! We were able to use scene graphs to make really shiny and colorful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  (to this day!). So, to (hopefully) make it up to Anjali, here's a much ... earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  space in our room that was screaming to be filled by a sofa. Attempts were ... hosted by Theta Xi, an alley, an effort to find something “big and useless ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  things that make you feel alive. every week i think to myself, well, this ... , but my awareness of it doesn't make it go away. i desperately want to do ... about all the things I can't do, and try to comfort myself by thinking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  competent enough to make meaningful progress in the field initially i wasn ... decision-making processes fall to this problem of infinite descent, of being ... how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... orientation events that turned out to be either unrequired or just plain

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... making a short list of things I missed about MIT and things I’m happy to be ... find a place that actually can make a living off Pogo stick classes to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  personalities can work together to make such a supportive community. 3. MIT ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  much time on something, commit to it” (He was trying to make me explain ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  've got the makings of a good bunch. It's kind of interesting to get a sense ... 're expected to finish your requirement by the end of sophomore year, but there ... -tripped DC for some work meetings (6.5 hours each way makes for a long day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... ) pretty nonexciting, b) nonexciting to people who don't care about operating systems research and development, c) exciting, by which I mean "Stargate SG

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  to make them, or just perform a metabolic reduction on food. (Vegan ... dragon trying to make friends with a guy playing a harmonica? 22:47 - 23 ... more of? NERF GUNS! Shoot your opponent to make it your turn. Guaranteed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015