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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... : Really seeing the city. I guess if I had to pick, I certainly do regret not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  end up dropping the class if it turns out to be too hefty of a time ... , prickly to handle, and hasn't evolved significantly in the last 30 million ... . Exemption from the FEE gives you the sweet freedom to take any writing class

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  if you want to be called fishboy, then go ahead and pick it. I'd like ... ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the ... you are at MIT. This will be the name you give to faculty, future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  issue is that the gyroscope fails too often to be used alone in this ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... . The closest to the number wins. The skunk ball is a penalty ball. If

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been ... from perfect, but I often think that I should be able to handle

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  ? I don’t think that I'd be happy with my life if I tried to be the best ... be/things I’m trying to avoid, the magnitude of impacts, and so on ... the occam’s razor explanation, where i’m just really motivated to be a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook ... ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  -learning models. And the assignments would probably be far too complex if we had to ... Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And ... looked forward to… but it turned out to be the most disappointing. Not that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... getting the money and saw an ad for some smart pen, something called the ... digital format. It also records whatever is being said and maps it to the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and ... failed the 18.03 ASE, I would not have been able to change majors, so I ... 't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  ’m thankful for the opportunity to be home in Michigan for Thanksgiving. I ... always seem to be the worst days. I hear stories from my mom about the ... in the first place. If you’re reading this, I encourage you to think

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  the testing room. If all else fails, you could take a prep course ... exams here. But at the same time, it is really great to be able to do ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... handle it. Let me know if I snow anybody." So, imagine our delight when we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best bands. Perhaps the best example of Senior Haus being ahead of the (music ... played Steer Roast in 1990. Here's the contract: One report says that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  guilty no matter how little or big the purchase. Still, if you're able to ... . Depending on the student, this can be up to an additional $3000 to ease the ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  . Acquaintances that I had gotten used to being around, but no longer see on the ... supposed to be. At the end of the day the one singular person that we can ... comparison to other people. It doesn’t matter if I was the number one desired

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the ... these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather morbid picture of MIT to you. Let me be blunt, my friends. There will be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  like to call, the “PNR mindset” and the “grindset mindset.” The ... confronted with the reality that, come February, I won’t be able to just ... deprived brains into looking forward to the next time a pset would be

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  chapter. If you decide to read only one of the novels I mention, my first ... and rig a bunch of shitty statues of liberty to explode if those are the ... contracts-to-call. A blue one is going to want to talk it over and figure out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019