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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... or culture was like. Now my view is unbelievably different even to the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for ... events that happen in order to propel the story. This is one of the first ... much more. The book is set in Kabul, Afghanistan and covers the time

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14 ... wrong to think of fellow humans as NPCs, but perhaps the most obvious of ... had visited his office. That was our cue to leave. In the elevator

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in rotation. Is the decision of what to wear that much of a burden to ... interest to reduce my workload, especially in my last semester. The next day ... for many different reasons, but he has all the money in the world to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  zygosity of same-sex twins based on the number of placentas, is in the right-most ... ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  that’s been on my mind the most lately is the pandemic — after getting ... is productive at all — i used to think the pain from regrets like these ... ; the most common complaint is something along the lines of “can you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  dreams because all I wanted is to have any job, and not live in the ... being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... 's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I ... hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... half of the art had already been retrieved by the time I popped in to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic ... Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists ... presentation so we decided to chill before the show started. This is when the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... UROP. I work in the BioInstrumentation Lab and I’m trying to write up the ... gives us the opportunity to meet alumni who have established careers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  ] but it's a huge leap. In fact, it is one of the largest leaps in math ... students are vaguely expected to understand by this point can be used in much ... particular, this is given by the Euclidean distance from a point a to the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  perspective. The bar here is so much higher than back in high school. The other ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  a unique name.) My influence is most clearly seen in the acceleration ... . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... poor people in Africa, it's not like being published is really in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to ... 't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  says he is convinced, depend on "exposure to the unusual, to the diverse ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE ... entire week free from classes! Back in high school spring break was in the middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... to the department you're interested in to see what programs you will ... couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... class last year before dropping it. It is pretty much the same as what I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  from Indiana - most of the callers wanted to talk to admitted students ... , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go ... you decide to come here next year: most of the events at MIT have free

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... discovered yet. After all, mathematics is not inherently tied to the workings

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016