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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... 2003. Then one afternoon, I got a phone call. Actually, I missed a phone ... area code. Who knows it could be MIT!" I responded with a snarky remark

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub specialty of Mechanical Engineering called Course “2A”) and I’ve only now been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot ... something claim: boston weather sucks   fact: well, only a little bit if you ... holds this belief"] claim: the bloggers are a collective hivemind who hang

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  I've never considered myself a very natural leader. I'm usually pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  here's a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... documentaries! Recently I've been thinking a lot about my future. I've written

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  from a thousand miles away. Being so far away makes me feel a little better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change ... cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical technician and joined the MIT student volunteer service. There are quite a few ... overnight shifts from 11pm-8am. Thankfully, there is a nifty little bunkroom

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... , actually, you probably can. It’s been a few days since Spring Break ended

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying ... and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my ... , with a pencil and markers and tape and scissors - it was a masterpiece. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... of Delaware and former dean of Wharton, Nelson's alma mater). I am a ... credible answers to a few questions that the painfully shallow news coverage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  This Monday and Tuesday, undergrad volunteers banded together in a ... a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours despite our bleeding GPAs and unfinished psets. It was a little like

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  A belated happy new year! 　（あけまして、おめで ... not have a IAP Japan program (hinthintnudgenudge administration? =p) I ... morning (10-1) with Profesor Gessa, and stayed with a Spanish family

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a ... relaxing deeper into the bubble than ever, into a special world only ... three movies a day. I remember wondering how long it could last. If the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025