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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th ... Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus ... football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on ... speed) (It saves a lot of time and allows you to iterate on material ... the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... 'm in a taxicab that can only drive on the road-- you add the number of ... . One of my lifelong goals was to teach a math class and have it on OCW. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  of your essay. Avoid slang. Use "street cred" on your own time. If ... impressed by the poster that has your head superimposed on the body of Arnold ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  have a flag that was truly ours. None of has had clothes to wear on ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  President Obama has proclaimed today National Day of Making, an opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  qualitative aspects of civil engineering, rather than the hands-on aspects ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... use without being in danger of my setting them on fire. Oh. Right. Pre ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  hours happily coding on a Saturday night instead of partying, people ... tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... Star Wars Trilogy: The Musical Edition fall of my freshman year - the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of ... lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no ... … You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  . I rely a lot on my myriad of notebooks and papers: my planner, that ... effort and management, which I just couldn't manage on top of my already ... 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and am planning on picking up a bunch of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  air at 8.55, what a dumb idea, and instead i muse on the nature of these ... You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  -12, which i honestly believe should be illegal"]lots of class [/annotation] on ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  wish that there was more of a focus on higher-level technical talks. Most of the technical talks that I went were on an overview level and didn ... My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  'm going to go home and work on a side project, but end up watching House of Cards with the boyfriend on his janky couch that is somehow missing 60% of ... extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  those experiences; i sit on the other side of the judges' table, feeling ... , and being found, and belonging. or of seeing the love in on ... turns out well Maybe it will turn out this time On the road to Hell On the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... helpless despair until it averages out into a feeling of "meh." Despite this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  out with friends who were around. On the night of Christmas Eve, a ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020