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• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... that it didn't have a great location; it was close to a highway, so I ... as a last resort provided we couldn't find anything else. We gave

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  packed for my 5:00 A.M. flight out of there. *** I still don't know half of ... transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... :00 A.M.) and frantically scrolled through all my notes before trekking

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice ... would ever want to be a chemist. I'm sure that there are some people out ... , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  , if I'm doing really, exceedingly badly, I just won't call them at all. This semester, I didn't call them for a period of about three weeks. To ... from all the other subjects I'm studying; a lot of the content in my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  wearing only shorts and a t-shirt. In February! Anyway, the worst part of ... have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical ... with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you don't, quick synopsis: my section hadn't received our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew ... , another is implementing a project in the Philippines, and yet another is in India, having clinched an externship there. Though I won't be traveling

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…

  

  . Keri '10, Kris '10, and Neha '10, or M-I-T respectively. :-) Jess '10 ... '10 @ graduation! Star '10, who writes "I challenge anyone to top a graduation in Hawaii :P" Send your MIT '10 end-of-year photos to benjones at m

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  last Tuesday. I didn’t have a separate sheet of paper to take notes ... grabbing a blue book being handed out. I didn’t do as well as I thought I ... class out of the four I’m taking right now. A lot of the visible essays

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... in?" This is a bug in our online application, all is good, don't worry ... %, extracurriculars are worth 20%, etc. I'm not really looking for actual numbers just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  about housing now, which isn't something I'm willing to touch in a ... to MIT, that's all. You aren't limited to a specific school because it ... from academics and a chance to just chill (wouldn't want a bunch of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  about, which will also be exciting (and easier). I'm a little sad about ... feel slightly attached to it. But don't worry, I'm definitely more happy than sad about starting college. I'm getting a little tired of every

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We ... 's a lot of vocabulary. It's a systems-y class, which I like. We haven't ... . Unfortunately, with term starting up again, I've been preoccupied with classes. I'm

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both of the projects I'm involved with. :) ... Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... various divisibility tests. I wasn't certain, though, until I got to a ... stuff. If you haven't read a biography of mathematician Paul Erdos, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some ... . If I don't see you, have a happy new year, and GET YOUR APPLICATIONS IN ... them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  , I actually don't know the speed off the top of my head (the computer I'm ... First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on ... doing her MEng in the EECS department, but she told me she couldn't answer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  be pretty damn hard. While writing, I realized that I hadn't written a ... -to-last week of the semester, I set my alarm for 11 a.m. instead of 9:30, committing to the idea of skipping my 10 a.m. Chinese lecture entirely. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020