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  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  ’s nice to be on campus. Really nice. But the longer I’m here, the easier it becomes to picture what it should be. What my freshman year should have been ... be. Classes aren't supposed to just be recorded lectures I cram the day

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I ... to try for grad school again at some point in the future it'll be good ... gaining the skills to be hired in that job at the bachelor's level. If you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  Admissions. Yuan: Wow, now I can't wait for it to be April! It's gonna be one ... So me and my 133t h4x0r roommate Yuan decided to take over Bryan ... 't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  reasoning for wanting to take the third exam, despite knowing that it would be ... where I probably wouldn’t be able to pass and should just drop it. I think ... would greatly be determined by our fourth exam score and final, and hence

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , thinks 18-year-olds ought to be doing. Not many sleep eight hours a night ... aren't supposed to be finished," she said. "They're partial. They're raw ... to which they don't enjoy their senior year, which is supposed to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  to be stifling, but we found a way to rely on one another for ... aspect , there might be a lot to lose by pushing some of the smartest ... Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... moved back to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I'm here for three days trying to ... airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  will seek ways to ensure that every MIT student interested in ROTC has a ... , transgender cadets and midshipmen might be denied military commissions due to ... wishes to be part of it...   The MIT community is proud of those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can ... grade school doesn't really deserve to be called "math." It ... same way that it's important to distinguish literature from literacy

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... , and they were not amused the second time he tried to put it on. By the ... normal to you but were about as revolutionary as 1600's England could be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  you truly want; that way you can’t be disappointed. Fifteen years from now, I could be the person who says, “I used to write novels.” Hard at ... , and I began to worry I’d be so exhausted from the semester that I wouldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  . It was originally intended to be an in-person event, but the committee decided that it was an achievable way to bring students together in a ... virtual nature of the event pushed them to be more creative. (wow! an upside

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  comfortable place to be. Pro tip: ATTEND YOUR PROFESSOR'S OFFICE HOURS. DO IT ... referred to as J-Lab, because it's usually taken by physics majors in their ... look at a little motor in E. coli. Scary as this class is supposed to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  way and had a bonding experience that can't be quantified in lecture ... of the course is: reading poetry. A lot of it. To be honest, I barely ... myself, "Do I really need to go to lecture?" That answer happened to be no

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  off your reply card (send off your reply card and come here, by the way ... familiar, but it's always nice to be reminded that there's more to MIT than ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty clear what course number was going to be on my registration forms. That ... . Intrigued by the potential to get paid to play with airplanes, I asked Carl

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  entire semester to pursue that question by designing an experiment ... didn’t take me very long to figure out what my project would be. When I ... advertised and if they were to be trusted with a soccer player’s brain safety

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  . Most of this advice is paraphrased from people that I consider to be mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  New England Patriots, my family has raised me to be a die-hard Seahawks ... heartbroken over this (unless I really want to be a jerk). If anyone wants to ... , another calendar, and some cabinets), feel free to ask and I’d be more than

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015