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• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  clear that about half of us would be cut from roster. I was NOT going to ... want to be a 21W minor, if not a major. SO I spent the rest of that day ... that this class is going to kick my ass, but in a good way. This class

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  bringing it up then. By the way, congratulations on graduating. Senior Wow, way to make an insulting, totally useless reply to the entire dorm ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  down your bags and sigh because it feels so good to be home? Yeah. That ... to be walking along and think, "Hey, that looks like fun." So Class of ... not be defined by what you read on the schedule - though that part will

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... 77 Mass Ave. It may be the summer, but we students have places to be ... refer to rooms within buildings by their numbers. It's kind of bewildering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  stalking Diana Eng and I discovered that she is going to be at the seamless 2 ... I am able to grow facial hair to be my punishment for some inexcusable ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  terrible things at me, and the only way I could find myself reacting was by ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT's campus. You may be asking the big question - WHYYYYYYY????? East Campus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  be posting it to my blog thanks to my wireless Internet connection. I ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had to be "crowded" (meaning they were going to squeeze and extra frosh in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... refer to quick questions that reinforce certain skills"]finger exercises.[/annotation] There's always some to be done. Nice! The timer went off. For my reward

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  … drive quickly but cautiously under the speed limit) home to check my ... Exam week starts, and before I know it I’ll be graduating. Where has the ... was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach ... prepare: CPW will overwhelm you. There is no other way to put it. There will be many things to do, and you will not be able to do everything

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything ... for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  , as a way to practice being outside the MIT bubble. Below is one of the ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main ... suggests, the MayFair happens at the beginning of May as a way to herald the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  like I always do, on my way from something or other to something else ... used to be. (Aren't we all :P) Everything is the same and different, all ... hard way by not checking the weather forecast and getting stuck in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  decision: Go home to be with my family, or bug out with some friends who ... that even though I loved my family, I needed to be with East Campus folk ... these things aren’t super easy to come by! Regardless, we started

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  that being what I want to do because I never thought I was good enough ... credited classes at Harvard. It would be so cool to gain more fluency in ASL ... class and I might not be as motivated to go since it goes so late CMS.300

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace ... Memorial Fund, which will support a Collier Medal to be awarded to people who

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  's always going to be a tie. Voters just max out each contestant's phone lines ... 's put it another way - if 200 million people try to register votes in that ... it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  all. it seems so easy to be hurt or happy by silly little sounds that we ... some way, maybe, those words are the parts of me i had decided to be ... legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... divisible by two, due to the principle of bilateral symmetry to which nature ... . Having an even number of legs allows animals to be balanced as they travel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005