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• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Journalism and Political Science (which only required 2 semesters of STEM to ... myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students ... students are developing methods to improve emergency transportation services

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... ’ve never been romantically drawn to that kind of person—the Forbes 30 Under ... enough at those interests to be rewarded with some extrinsic markers of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. "I loved that," said ... I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan ... forest to see the edge of a lake, the rippling water, and the beginning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and ... because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... class, which is nice because Sloan has a lot of good places to work. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  people from the class to work on each of these four project areas. I had ... to "be mobile," in the sense of exchange of information in a mobile ... from last semester, came to the class with the director of the MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... going to keep typing Shyam's name because I want him to Google himself one ... -and-variations. He then had to take three of the ten compositions we submitted on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... head off to a team meeting. Come to think of it, I've been so busy this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... 's not, I do have two quick pieces of advice I would like to share before I get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  system which is meant to estimate the number of hours you’re intended to be devoting to this class on a weekly basis. The majority of MIT classes are 12 units, corresponding to an expected 12 hours of work per week. By contrast

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  ="term of endearment referring to mit alumni"]cruft[/annotation] stick around ... . i wanted to say that one year isn't that long in the span of things ... in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... mistake once." I don't think I've ever pushed the bounds of mistake

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... many months. I figure that it might be insightful to those of you faced ... kicked off of campus, I was naive enough to believe that we'd be back by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... playground to squeeze in concentrated spurts of productivity between casual

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  of beauty I ever knew. It was not odd that I wanted to look like her ... video, Shruthi ‘16. She was one of the first dancers to ever truly inspire ... shimmying. It would have to be worthy of a film school submission. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer ... legendary new unit of measurement, the smoot (now incorporated by Google ... Ohio experiences possible and awesome! P.S. to the Class of 2019: make

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... .303/11.003: Methods of Policy Analysis. I need this class for my humanities ... checked to see what parts of the problem were correct, which parts were

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  all kinds of stories to be told. Faith Erin Hicks has a website ... seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... semester 21W.758 was a class that covered a multitude of genres but stuck to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... , despite being amazingly prepared to bask in the sunshine of the West Coast ... first, I balked at the idea of walking all the way back to Maseeh with no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015