Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  were given a budget of $100 to order parts needed for our project. The ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... commentary! I really wanted to give a deep dive into an MIT class and I hope

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research ... the oldest floorpi graduate I knew, Charles T. '10. This lead to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  much install anything you wanted, suddenly not being able to was a shock ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ambition fit. I suppose this also explains why I feel a strange need to ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  --did I eat or sleep, do I need a break, or maybe a walk? Do I need to talk ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  'll need a separate blog post to describe it. Drop of Water told us that in order to help us implement a well, they needed a contact at a local ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011