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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus printers (unless you take the action to turn it off), the printer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  when I walked out of my dorm to head to Physics I noticed something ... to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... would be there, and what I needed to take to my dorm. I was discussing

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... at 8 AM, and the morning was spent listening to medical and graduate ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I had already uploaded these pictures to my webspace, so now you have to look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before, otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the door.) Made good time to Hartford; checked into the Hilton (didn't see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• 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 days. Why? Because I want to experience everything. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my advisor. Much idyllic, such hipster, wow. To play to stereotype, I even

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... completed two years at MIT, and I plan to graduate after I finish four years ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  course 6 class we wanted to take. Last semester, we finally took 6 ... semester, and while they did seem interesting, we felt like we wanted to learn things more closely aligned to our interests in our last semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS (Course 6-2) and Media Studies (CMS). Prior to coming to MIT, I swore I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  I have so many things and so little space, but I'll try my best to ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... . I continued to follow all of his stuff after that. I was a bit too shy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to write to all of you who will be coming to visit very soon. You might be ... 't hope to answer everyone's questions and echo all of your feelings, but I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... assignments last Friday, and I am so happy to officially say that my friend ... to be her host prior to Friday, most people were matched by admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been ... maladaptive coping mechanisms, but my inability to cry in front of other people

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  science in an effort to document my journey through this twisty and windy ... to try and learn any computer science related things, specifically out of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020