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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  SO MUCH to study. Oh, wait, quick sidetrack. On the first day of finals ... walked out of the final at 4:30 PM on Wednesday and went straight back to ... was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  to gracefully flail on the ice rink, while dressed up as your favorite ... to Miami as I departed to see THE DALAI LAMA in his talk on ethics ... DO on the weekends?” *defined here as me. Disclaimer: I may not be the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school ... dig up some tears is due to the fact that I'll be living on the MIT ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  head about whether to censor the names on these posters. On one hand, a ... closer to the bottom of the list before looking at it a second time and ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time ... anchored to the sky. In West Africa, it shoots volcanoes down on us. I get ... sleep. I decide to pass the time by taking a quiz on Buzzfeed. This quiz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  rant discussion on the books I’m reading this summer. I’d love to hear ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... Lord of the Rings series (which took me through winter break to actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... and so on, but I never want to be in a situation where I'm twisting the ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  summer to reflect on what I've done in the past year and on my journey ... , but sometimes it's nice to sit back and reflect on the good things in ... . The second day on the job, I visited the Port of Albany, where I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  online, whereas MassArt is still all on paper.) Back to MassArt, the ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we have been reflecting on what skills related to animation we’ve learned at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... people happy to add you to the list of students attending FYE! One minute

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  can effectively tack on $12 to the price of your restaurant meal. This ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  fun all the time.  I really had to struggle to just pass my classes, and ... the meaning of Pass/No Record.  I thought I'm going to take all ... the second half of the semester, we got into groups and developed a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  (which was great), and I watched the entire second season of Kakegurui in ... out with friends who were around. On the night of Christmas Eve, a ... , all around us. On New Year’s, another friend and I went to get lunch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  cherry blossom trees bear not only flowers, but freedom. -- On the second ... path, I like to keep on it, by foot and in life. In life, the path that I ... teachers, and tried to avoid the shocked looks on their faces and the pity in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... can consider the scale to be logarithmic.) The first sign of impending ... ” without offending anyone? I'm writing this on the Internet, so the answer is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  might understand why. On the first day of classes, I had Intro to Biology ... life taken an Intro to Biology class. He also means that he was on the ... questions that pop into my head that I want to ask the professor after class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  fencing in depth on the blogs before (something to do with NCAA rules and ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  influence on my choice to apply and ultimately to matriculate. I hope that the ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  hips to the hokey-pokey. (he doesn't know this video is on the ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009