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• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you’re ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to ... another possible answer is to leave school but to not move on. my friend

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

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall ... dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To ... home to Oregon and New Mexico and a stint in Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to ... best idea I’ve had at MIT"]I even went to all my classes on Tuesday ... . Listen to more music. (And if you’re at MIT and reading this, you should

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you're ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... hard,” we mean it. You may have to rethink your study skills. Some people

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... thought to myself, “That won't be me.”  I am known, on occasion, to sit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can ... graph whose nodes are all websites on the internet and where an edge ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... 's campus and being happy to be alive. Ali Yahya on CC was asking about the MIT campus, and it made me think of my favorite places on campus to sit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  to learn about what it's like to have free time when you're not burned ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up ... _row images="50384,50385,50393,50394" caption="L to R: my new whiteboard lookin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  later, I'm finally about ready to finish up this entry on marching band with some pictures. So, to answer all of your questions, here is the ... around, Mary Beth was still unafraid to march around Boston on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  to the new coordinates aware of the slowing of time due to the ripples ... [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the ... Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... more valuable than ever. In the MIT dorms,  you have your friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And today on this blog, I also begin a weeklong celebration of our seniors. I ... offers to work there (last year's most popular employer, if you're curious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... . They are people who Harvard students hire to work on their dreams. I ... the Iron Man expectation. Are you allowed to make mistakes if you’re an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent ... venture out to spread your wings and go about the often-tumultuous process ... respecting points of view that were counter to your own personal philosophies

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  . "What socioeconomic class would you say your person belongs to?" "Do you ... to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  if you're not sure you're going to go right away" (oops), we ate at The ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine ... able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  (assuming that you're a high school senior and you never again want to figure out how to condense your life into 100 words or less), I'm assuming you're ... on something that you might be able to continue into the next year. 2

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012