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• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... each week feels like coming up for air. All this said, I’m glad I went ... -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person who cannot stand it when I'm not prepared for something I easily could've prepared for, so I read extensive festival survival guides and bought a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  .5 hours. Come up with ideas for 4.354, CMS.618, and 21A.508 final projects ... , and up way too late for having a 9:30 class in the morning. Nevertheless ... estimate: 3.5 hours. Read and post a forum response for this week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  this was my way for making up for not spending any time there at all this ... the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  Introductory Bio can sign up), but if they did, there'd be too many people for ... hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters ... students and talks about neurotransmitters and drugs for 90 minutes. He does

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise ... strong work ethic on top. Simple enough, I figured it summed me up pretty ... topics around in my head and wait for inspiration. That's the thing about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  consisted entirely of nerdy pick-up lines, beginning with that one. (“Vote for ... . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too ... “First Year HASS Experience” (common humanities classes required for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  probably adds up to about one extra class worth of time for you, which isn ... quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... correct answers. That is not uncommon for MIT. Today in UROP Andy presented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to do (aka study for the 5.111 ASE, which I ended up failing anyway ... [/caption] I'd been hearing about Hades for months before I actually ended up ... love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally, I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... for more reflections along this train of thought, though. Interval - This was Joon and I's final project for 6.809 (Interactive Music Systems

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow-up ... it up for the day." About this Mario hack, the story I heard was that ... I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  each frat sets up a table under the tent on Kresge that’s used for ... helmet and filled up a magazine with pellets for a few rounds of Paintball ... a heavy heart, I wrote up a reply to Nathaniel—thanks for inviting me

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river ... friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... , beaten-up version of it. a painful memory, like a wound, causes pain every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  on Friday night and still get up on Saturday morning ready for the ... through if it were not for this queen. It was like having a mwakenya (cheat sheet) for college life. At first she came across as overbearing, and a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  recommend that you do! And if you feel up for it, share some of your ... land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... during Marathon weekend and saw the finish line! 11) Cleaned up nicely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of ... instead of giving up extra hours of sleep to finish up a pset. I go into ... emma. i'd die for all of them."]my friend group[/annotation]decided to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it ... begin to shift a little. So yes, I spent my first weekend a little bit up ... , my wonderful co-coordinator Sarah A. ('21) and I literally woke up at 6

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a formula for success. Ya know the big ol' "what makes someone successful?" Up ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019