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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  do (it probably inherited the stubbornness of my badass grandmother, but that’s a different story, a different time). The most I can do is ... do get to see MIT, at 7 am, in its glory of quiet energy, just waiting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ’t do well on most of them, unfortunately.  Grad School??? After going ... in this *figuring out what to do next year* phase In senior year of ... , like 1.5 steps away.  Doing well on the 6.837 test We were happy with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... grabbing a blue book being handed out. I didn’t do as well as I thought I would do, but I still did really well. Here’s some scrap paper. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between like 12:30-1 and walk around Boston CJ: i have hw CJ: but fuck that CJ

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  her all the best and I really do mean it. She was taking some tough ... them. I know she’ll do great. I walk to my hall’s kitchen and ... I had psets to do and exams to study for. My doctor is really nice

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  teaching, the actual tasks I carried out, what I learned from doing it, and ... moves we were doing. In particular, we discussed spinal anatomy, different ... relate that knowledge to the stretches I do with my workouts. [compensation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  selection committee really knows what they're doing. I then read the next ... other 98 percent doing? Fink joked that we could have named this ... 't expect them to do all of our work for us. Some people at MIT are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... have been a Course 7. Other things I'm doing this semester: UROP: One ... do a good job and gain a lot of experience in planning and managing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  year I decided to document the process. Since I'm from LA, I do not have ... /2 = $170/person. That said, I feel like after doing this 3 times I should ... college. Put the stuff that you do have in smaller boxes. From someone who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... dialogue: “Ravinder, you can do calculations in your head that the average ... , when do you add salt to your okra? At the beginning? Or the end? (student

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

   whole year had passed. I remember my Pi Day very clearly, but I do not ... of why I fucked up. And you know what? Next year I’ll probably do the ... do enough. But think of it this way: you’re here for a reason. Find

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  that do us good. It traps in and uses dead air as an insulator, keeping ... ). And even if you do have a healthy set of lungs, constantly breathing in ... word). I have seven pairs of gloves (why do you have seven pairs of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am ... here is a picture of us and our grandma doing our massive amount of ... really do just have to relax. We were pretty bummed that we didn’t get to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  Consulting Group. I'm also staffed on a travel case and will be doing a final ... another and with my classes I don't even know what to do or where to go ... emails. Disclaimer: I do forward and keep the important ones in my personal

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , but students do not have assigned seats and are encouraged to move ... amounts of information and, by doing so, acquire critical thinking skills ... like Uber and Amazon, as well as creation of their own start-ups. They do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for ... I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I ... . Conclusion: college has been fun, but I still have no idea what I will do in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... COOL BUT THEY ARE ALSO REALLY HARD TO MAKE BUT I ACTUALLY WAS DOING WELL ... minutes to do something that took me like 20…) made another great creation

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad ... talk with are reconciling their freshman dreams of doing important and ... to procrastinate psetting, and doing routine things that aren’t fun

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  no good photos of that night, I do remember having a good time dancing ... 't catch the aurora on our trip, and this was our final opportunity to do so ... and I'll see what I can do! I unfortunately won't be at many scheduled

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  any work, but then life happened and school exploded and my to-do list ... with investors, executives, and doing other mysterious professional CEO ... a class I’d started remotely - the one I wanted to do instead of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016