Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to ... leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... people using the same space. i’ve seen a lot of clubs at mit successfully

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  rounding team at one of the VA campus hospitals, and visited the VA's Brain ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at ... lines of how machine learning, to some degree, is all about learning

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  minimize harm to the rest of the Solar System. The trolley is traveling at 1 ... Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... does Pi Day look like at MIT? Do students eat pie? Do people recite the

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  bigger hit than “Cooler than Me” (at the time of this post, 1.3 billion ... bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what ... rates of mental health issues because of the pressure. At an hour

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night. - When J. Robert

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Me, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of ... : I've tried it all, and I've been bad at all of them. In eighth grade ... of my self-deprecating catchphrases, I abide by the “fake it till you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... mailing list). But being at home, I knew practice of any sort would be hard ... quarters. And a quarter means one out of four… at this point, I’m not even

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  at the intersection and combination of EECS and BCS in Course 6-9. Two ... whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... this list, you can perhaps get a look at how pursuing one avenue of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  at MIT and in Boston. Several of the most gay-friendly living groups ... 't. naventus wrote, "Haha glad to see you read slashdot too? Lots of people at ... , regardless of major (as all UROPs at MIT are). In short, yes, you will be able

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... students to take many of their upper level courses at a local community ... , where I had a Central Meeting at the Qualcomm corporate offices in one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  . ***ATS = Association of Taiwanese Students. I am neither Taiwanese nor an association of any sort, but thanks to ATS, I'm now Taiwanese by association ... dish under 375 degree heat. A modest serving of leftover bread stuffing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... at the grocery store, a shortage of guns. But there are also scenes ... killers, and a tavern at the end (or the intersection) of worlds, where

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Center See a show at the Museum of Science Ice skate on Frog Pond Go ... too late to do some of these things. Take a class at Harvard or ... heads together and did 13 of them in 2 days (MIT students are experts at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops, restaurants, and salons (read: girly girl paradise). I bought a cute skirt at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006