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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  and use their opinions to make a final decision--Yes or No--on whether ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  could (on certain floors). If I wanted to spend all day flopped on a giant ... much going on and you can't be a part of all of it. + People tend to not ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  - read on. Each one of those balls represents a new person I met, or a ... ]) Before I write about my experience at CPW, I have a disclaimer to make ... have pictures on them. This tendency results from my inability to focus

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  grow on me. I began to imagine a world in which I graduated from MIT as a ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical ... The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... right after the class of 2007's Brass Rat had decided to try using a woman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  quick ride to Toledo for a day trip. #9: I Dub Thee My Favorite Alley ... without a visit to the Sagrada Familia. Though construction on the Sagrada ... 21L.590 would be the perfect chance to finally take a Literature course

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  everything going on that semester, I had to be a good student. I negotiated ... entirely on the time I had to find a way out of that F. And the admissions ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  share a common Website to compare a variety of materials and exchange ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... ), Concourse (humanities-STEM mixture), and Tutmonda (a brand-new language

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  54 units (this is a new-ish change, before it used to be 48). A lot of ... . College is the time to take risks and go out on a limb. But we have seen too ... , I went out on a limb. I wanted to put a bit of myself into a community

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  importantly, it's a chance for these youngsters to forget about difficult times at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... 've already been working really hard to make this year's camp a great success

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... perspective on who i am and what it takes for me to be happy. this is a post for ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  "]Chipotle[/annotation] than I expected, but that's fine. I've got a few quick and relatively ... ASMR cooking videos on YouTube. They're actually a pretty big genre on ... of breaking recipes down into simpler steps to make it seem a little

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  'm a little cheesy sometimes - what else is new? Luckily, I have about ... here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call ... will, probably, be a few times you have too much going on and forget that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... with each other. Whenever I’m stuck on a problem, I always have someone I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  spent a ton of time listening to hip-hop on the radio because that’s the ... ”. I would cross-stitch that on a pillow if I knew how to sew. I ... have Retrospectives. You have a lot of fun new words to learn. It was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how ... prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... New Vassar used to be a parking garage, and I can't unsee it. The vibe ... people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025