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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  , we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  wants, what they are afraid of, while at the same time sharing with them ... week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  single one of the classes I have taken so far at MIT - whether it's organic ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  , Subpoenas, and You." I laughed. Of course they'd have to remind MIT students about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of ... quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  stare at part b. Inductance is nothing more than the result of geometry, I ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... 'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I can now read blog posts from OpenAI and understand at least some of ... derivative of GPT-2 is dubbed Robo-CJ. He’s pretty bad at coherent sense, but ... , I want to be in the sport of icebreakers, I want to be at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 're used pretty heavily, at least judging by the percentage of machines which ... whatnot. Grad school update: As of this evening, I have interviews at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  . There’s nothing like looking at all of the people that support all that ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston ... , after at least seven years of channelled and concentrated effort. I did it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  't know how at all, and I failed a bunch of tests. Miserably. And I had all ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  make a living out of making rhymes.   Laughed at bad ... Joseph Ducreux ones, because at one point of my life, I sort of wrote like ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... wouldn't be doing the day justice if I put it at the end of this one. ... Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all ... carpet of her second-story bedroom at 11pm switching between homework and ... the end of the line and I get off at the other end of the line, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... Mesopotamians were at the pinnacle of metallurgy and urban living, 500 years ago ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  ).  And at this time of year especially, I'm usually back on the computer ... hopping with great things going on.   Come to think of it, I'd rather be at ... two nights at the Marriott in Cambridge?" asked my partner now peering

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers ... making decisions. Because at the end of the day, you aren’t alone. Yes, I ... Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024