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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the ... you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... up exposures for the Eagle Nebula, my friends and I laid down on the ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... taken up by classes or extracurriculars. My mornings are taken up by the ... fucking exhausted. My typical day looks a little bit like this: Wake up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  proceed to say that 14 is Economics for all the [annotation note="cj: course ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14 ... also your adviser for the first year. 21m.a16 is beyond independent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... ). I'm not sure if this is something I picked up from others or if it ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  gusto. Yida and I were cracking up for a solid half an hour watching them ... students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... bridges' structural integrity, what are your goals for the summer? I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have ... drop Wednesday: Same as Monday, substitute psetting for issue night and ... make the news section of that newspaper you pick up on campus look pretty

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  first encounter was. (Can't say the same for bringing up my high school ... I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... Pal account to donate for shipping. We can still have awkward conversations

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  . Sign up for the reuse and free-food mailing lists. Go to Choose to Reuse ... lots of on-campus events while on Pass/No Record. Try to sign up for ... , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... tensegrity table will take five-ever and the light-up lyra will not be all that ... for at least two days to sit down and grind out p-sets, thirty percent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games ... that takes up a topic covered under the thematic of games & culture

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  subsidizes public transit passes by up to 50%. An unlimited one-month pass for ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... guarantees on-campus housing to undergrads for eight semesters, I was under no

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  , ended up having shortages of everything for a long while. I remember ... apartment just slips my mind. i end up not seeing my apartment for the first ... taking it down for good[/caption] saturday, march 14, 2020 Wake up, do a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  to look up. After not winning anything for most of 11th grade, at the ... project. Despite feeling that signing up for this extra class would be too ... counselor’s initial warning and the extra work she did to sign us up for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  .  Hour 14 I sleep for a few hours, waking up after we’ve crossed into Ohio ... catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  pick up a few and figure out what they're saying from that. Well, having ... intensive cultural experience for at least 8 hours a day, and I think I'm actually picking up some listening comprehension skills. But French? Well, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  you're a student here sign up for MIT's free three-hour fire ... . Stuff blows up! Things fall apart! Chapter 1: No Fear, Cavalier, Renegade ... for some Dim Sum at Chau Chow City, a restaurant that also features

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... an enriching time for me, and I learned more about what kinds of things

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  idiot, to be really honest too. I felt like I kind of set myself up for ... been stagnant in that position since that blog. Things settled for quite a while and then got all stirred up again during this semester. There

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022