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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  when? Duck Tour -- all that quacking will drown out the sobs Front desk ... -apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of-life-okay? dump that special someone. Some people will carry out entire relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... , which I realize might not be the right word for this, to die down

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  grades will be. But at some point the improvement becomes miniscule ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing ... being worth it. I’ve come to understand that the things I want to do are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  ask -- the rumor that movie star Will Smith was admitted to MIT is ... You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... . Recently, two people who turned down MIT after being admitted have become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  everything. The final product will be a multi-layered PDF. I've slapped ... caulking the exterior of our house, mowing fields, and generally being tired ... Let me tell you, flying home during the summer is much less painful

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  doesn't have that I-will-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-rotting-under-the ... was hit with an equally devastating feeling: I-will-spend-the-rest-of-my ... "you should be a doctor" or whatever the equivalent is. Most of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  right index fingers and the speaker proved how this could be impractical. Plus, cyclists have to be focused at all times, eyes on the road (so ... presentation, we learn that “there is an 82% chance the horse will receive some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the ... . Wow. I’m already half way done. I only have two more years to make the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  there will be a new animation course offered next year at MIT through the ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  December, Professor Wilson will remain the students' first-year advisor. The ... fall semester, your transcript will look the same whether you get a 50 in ... . Held in one of two classrooms (the newest being in the basement of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  by their genome). The main character wants nothing more than to be an ... constitutes the value of a human being and the consequences of biotechnology ... production team made something that they can really be proud of. It did the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  MIT. At the same time, if you don't arrange something like this, be ... applied or already been accepted will not be a Fun Time (unless you too are ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  them to Central America, where we'll be visiting the countries of Panama ... pictures eventually! In the meantime, enjoy your last month before MIT! Be ... I win. So I apologize for having disappeared (somewhat) off the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  "TDI will be my family forever." I feel the same way. I've been involved ... undergoing, there's also just the good, clean fun of being at camp. Here are ... and who support you in return, because they are the people who will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  was the last one with material that would be covered on the exam, but I ... my will, but as she put the tweezers away the lady called me a stupid ... working, I quit being sad and got mad. I bought a new ticket (yes, on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  the Kresge Oval with some friends. As we ran around, we could hear music ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and roll across Massachusetts Avenue from Bexley, but these notes were the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  lecture. I've found the textbook to be most helpful and the notes more as a ... (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as ... the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  temples. and this would be the view from the top! and Found in the ... if the landlord is authentic...we should be okay...So we set up an ... weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day ... I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  great to be able to spectate and see the content with fresh eyes. I think ... enjoy, I can't help but miss the security that comes with not being on my ... with the fact that I'm graduating soon. I imagine these feelings will

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023