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• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... spooky spider collecting election mail. I wanted to share the spider on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from ... launch! Getting 17 people on the same page is not an easy feat, which

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have ... to, very objectively, determine whether or not you’re overcommitted. It ... reflection that I was, in fact, fairly curious as to how I actually spend my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  listening to a nurse say "puff our your chest like a girl puffs out her boobs ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... cursing Hurricane Sandy for postponing my oral exam to 7:30am on my birthday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... , but the conversation snippets are fun to listen to. "Dude, you're teaching THAT to MIDDLE SCHOOLERS?" and "how'd swing dancing go?" and "food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... but this to say: you have to try a burrito from Anna's. If you're up for ... sources of graphic content. Also, how am I supposed to center captions with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to ... prove that you actually know how to do chemical engineering before you go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... dream you’re reminded of after waking—how the back-and-forth of our voices

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  mountain, to making s'mores on a bonfire on the beach; from learning to ... Nick, on his newly furry face) Tomorrow, it's back to numbers, p ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  frisbee, you'll have an opportunity to exercise your body and mind at MIT ... their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don't wish to participate in varsity athletics, there are also more than 30
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  (primarily, sleep and food deprivation). I was trying so hard to hang on to ... how badly I was struggling. Not that my friends didn’t notice (I like to ... most permanent aspect of how (if you’ll excuse the pun) [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep ... subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their ... -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... out on dorm row. Passers-by don't seem to realize that their conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... 's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  of random things. Then I realize I have work and get back to it. It ... ’.  Monday  12:30 pm I get on a call with one of my pod mates and ask ... to catch up. She’s just moved out somewhere to the West to live on a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  is made out to be, depending of course on your time management skills ... considering how terrible some weeks can get. The rest of my night is so relaxed ... , something that I think gets lost in all of the excitement that does go on here

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely clean. Just one more thing to add to how busy I already am, rebuilding my computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the ... morning to a warm weight on my tummy, the little gremlin dog I called ... laying down on the hardwood floors arms wide open as Snickers came over to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears ... ; Congratulations on your game crash! I guess we’ll pivot to talk about the tournament ... . I want to focus on shorter games where I’m trying to get much more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024