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• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  northeast, which is a travesty because it is the one steak sauce to rule all ... ???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... large black tea. It says the answer to problem seven is 15.7π m ... ’t know what half the variables mean. 1:00 — I go to economics class. It’s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike ... something clean, you're gonna have to clean it yourself. I occasionally go on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... ] Amber: So Arcturus is a pretty new club, yeah? Tell us about its formation ... development. It’d be an awesome opportunity to make connections in the robotics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... Saturday. I am very psyched that Sam is planning to join the marching band (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  , let it be noted that Cambridge is about to celebrate it's 800th ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year ... Cambridge it is far more likely that people retain material over the entire

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  trick question, aren't you? It isn't. And the right thing here is to be ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... to eat. We ended up deciding on Bartley's as we walked past it - hey

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  – what if it’s only possible for me to be okay when I’m not actively ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is ... high school except now I’m actually prepared to take it"]8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... attending. That escalated quickly, so let me restate it: I stopped going to ... format, and it’s only mandatory to the extent that attendance comprises

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out your financial aid forms) should definitely check it out. Mitra is ... managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  blog was super random. It probably is. But we just really wanted to get ... you know that it’s okay to R E L A X. Notes (1) Bordeline is a mural ... to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  better. Because every week is a countdown to Friday. But that's okay. It ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can ... our year committed suicide. I wasn't very close to her, but it still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  old 3 Doors Down albums and I really like this song. Which is why it has ... . Anyway. Life at MIT is moving right along at its usual breakneck pace, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Really, my only complaint is that I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  it takes to go from 0mph to 60mph"]0-60[/annotation] is 2.5 seconds ... and debugging code. Most importantly, I’ve realized how easy it is to ... for how to handle it, which is why they come to you for help. Emotional

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... brings us to the number 42. According to Wikipedia: "42 (forty-two) is the ... Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  , I think it’s also important to say that there is absolutely nothing ... past Friday. IAP is an amazing opportunity to take different classes ... could become a member of MIT-EMS. I think there is some pressure to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  week: 1. It is definitely possible to semi-survive on free food. Don ... ’t light up but they’re still pretty cool. I'm planning on using it to ... could have actually pulled it off, but we had more important things to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... ever talked about it to him, really. I actually even refused to tell ... open or the mailman forgot to shut it or whatever. So I parked my car and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... ! The thought is so terrifying and yet so cool. We also get to hear ... answers. And I love that. I find it thrilling to just get an introduction to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  friends will take up a large amount of your time, and it is very tempting to ... . It is an opportunity not to be missed. ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] It is probably a well-worn maxim that writers

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009