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• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... could have a great experience at any of those schools, just like I could

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... 't shout out, and aren't disrespectful of each other or me. They laugh at my ... . At the end of class, I collect the notecards; they say things like "you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... few strong beliefs about [annotation note="They believed it started at 1 instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... had been tossing around the idea of hating superman for a few days at ... other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty-year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  the same kind of mistakes at about the same age, and master the same parts of language at about the same age. The input is necessary, but it ... oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They ... -postcard of Marlon Brando, which is nicer to look at than the green plastic pot ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable ... , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  for 'binging copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons content.' I've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by ... Dungeons and Dragons. For those of you who do not know, Dungeons and Dragons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  control of the classes and everything else that gets thrown at us and making ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed out of my mind. I am taking not one, not two, not three, not four - FIVE

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  . Typically there is a "well" of potential energy, and a certain point at which ... lot of historiography, which is basically looking at historians' bias in ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  this to love, in that a loved one can be a source of rest, but at this ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the ... During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... greatest number of times. [caption id="attachment_41597" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 22, 2013