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• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the ... , so when I think of Valenzuela, I imagine MacArthur. A road that is, for ... no taller than four floors. For sixteen years, this was what I knew as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The ... will see again. There's barely any time for real goodbyes, for send-off parties, for thank-you cards, for savouring the moment... Even at the best

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... sucker for romcoms. And it's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE that MIT Lecture Series ... talked to the lady at the front, saying we were here for the early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for ... program or not (and was supposed to find out before i left for Christmas break), i couldn’t register for the class. as a backup, i signed up for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for ... ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this ... to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they ... patterns for function. Similarly, this cover letter is difficult for me to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... because I left them on read for too long last week, or perhaps something ... else. Variable weather calls for variable coping mechanisms (especially

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  . Ha. Ha. I took 18.06 (Linear Algebra) for about 2 weeks(?) before I ... ;   I was happy for at least a moment. At this point, I started scrambling for another arts/humanties class to take. I emailed at least 3

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

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

  

  blogged about events for book lovers, summer in Boston, places in downtown ... Squirrel Girl and Adventure Time comics, and he signed a copy of his book for ... includes a stage for children. Might not seem like a big deal, but seeing

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

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  Jose, California. I brought with me all that I would need for the next 9 ... . Shoutout to my friends (two from MIT!) for coming to watch and cheering me on! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my group's 6.S08 final project   Classwork for all my courses: 6.S08 ... — literally just — in time for my flight to Denver and 2 hour-long midnight uber

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... women were respected for the work that they did: And the 1896 yearbook ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn ... .042 (Math for Computer Science) is a really interesting class. I guess the closest synonym for it is discrete math: topics include proofs, cardinality

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin ... little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... the new Vice President and Dean for Student Life, Suzy Nelson. I sat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me ... declaring writing as my second major. Well, applying for the second major ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  symbols where your letter grades should go. For me, these were: O ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the ... - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity, reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... fair happenings. But I’m not going this year. Tomorrow I’m off for an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015