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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I ... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig Nobody

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

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  turf field, only because I noticed on the first day of practice that if ... to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... on the dry erase board in their floor lounge "Conner 2: Home of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  many first kisses in movies that you think "This is that part of the ... 's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on ... have strong memories of 7th-grade-Cami curling up on the couch, watching

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we ... film in the midst of trying to finish my other classes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... in these first few weeks. Today was my first midterm of second semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  Lovecraft and a couple of neuroscience books. What was the first thing you did ... winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... Cognitive Sciences; specifically, he was interested in the neural basis of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... actually solved any of the questions on the last page. Honestly, it was bad ... SO MUCH to study. Oh, wait, quick sidetrack. On the first day of finals

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished ... prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  90% of the first class. Step 16: Realize that the professor is ... narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... , we get formal instruction!!! Besides the level of excitement, there

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  Hello! Here's the latest: We have begun reading regular action ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please check your application tracking on MyMIT today. If you are missing an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... ’t have any plans for the first half of IAP, so we’ll just keep speed ... by our building, totalling the whole back-and-forth walk at 2.5ish

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  population (and indeed the student population as a whole) is quite socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  ), the president of the CUR (pronounced curr, like the first syllable in ... pretty soon the whole section of the poster hall was an audience. When he ... I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  .805 (Foundations of Internet Policy): This is the first law class I have ever taken ... rusty and the first assignment - write a five page story - almost killed ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and half of me was focused on the construction going on in Killian Court

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  , because Michael covered it fantastically. That's the outside of Clover Food Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a ... kitchen) -- not inside the truck! 2. The city of Boston requires food

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  Book of Mormon! Next summer, [annotation note="wicked was the first ... everything, here's some quick snippets of some of the things that have happened ... celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... of people (MIT-affiliated and not!) descend onto MIT's campus over the ... against puzzles of any and all forms. This is the MIT Mystery Hunt: an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025