Search

Search Results

• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  . Seen lots of movies (prior to this, the last time I went to a theater was ... . So why should you spend $50,000 dollars/yr to come here?( Seriously ... a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  used some of our wing budget to buy three more of them. they are very ... production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson ... for a couple of the showings but we got to watch it together on opening

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no ... (sorry, I had to rub it in). Also, that whole stereotype of British people ... 'm thinking of starting a campaign to bring this to MIT, but I doubt it would

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you ... later that you confront the reality of what it’s like to wrestle with a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat ... know that I have enough experience and skills to really be of use. On ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of ... about storytelling and what sorts of stories I might want to tell; I ... ones. (this feels weird to type explicitly, since i've never thought of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  . Unfortunately, my excess of umbrellas was of no help to me Friday, because I wasn ... advantage of all the free time (well, more free time than I'm used to, anyway ... , since it is supposedly the middle of winter, I didn't think to bring one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  living groups?" Well, first of all, that's not exactly fair to FSILGs, as ... contribute to their own school of thought, they just repeat a diluted version of what was handed to them. (Note: I'm not saying this is true of all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my ... be a productive member of society. Unable to support myself, I turned to others. Friends from the other side of campus dined with me daily

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  to a lack of space or preexisting commitments. Eric believes that ... effort. To help out, she designed a kite that measured the number of hours ... 'll find students making time to rise up to that challenge. That's what

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  need today, and the determination to take full advantage of it. Through ... valuable — in fact, will be of core value to the economy that will reward innovation. And, of course, the investment will continue to pay off not only

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  very nice in all of your interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make ... better to do on a Friday night, along with increased risk of heart failure

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  class, are coming up soon, and all of the professors want to make sure ... . Honestly, I’m probably overreacting to all of these tests. My physics and ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the ... Sciences. The departmental requirements are full of classes I would like to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  values with MIT’s mission to brighten the horizons of humankind ... of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  -inclined, shove your face full of fancy food event that simply isn't to be missed. Instead of writing words, I decided to steal a page out of Jess Kim's book ... get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009