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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  -mail because I think I'm the only person on the floor that actually doesn't "know ... I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this on the chalkboard: Now, I wasn't really paying that close attention

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share ... this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  coast are coasters.  So I'm a yankee coaster.  I can't imagine Boston Red ... than "yankee" and "coaster", they also call me "M-I-T" and "Red," because ... "Oh yea you guys don't have armadillos up there in yankeeland

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ...  Project Manus, from: Friday: 1:00–5:00 p.m. Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. We'll have CNC milling and 3D printing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  my first 5K last year with two sisters and a member of one of our ... these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a ... about their lives here and I read all the admissions blogs too but I wasn’t

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  /TV/brainrot/croissants, just to start working again. But isn't that what I'm here to do? Why do I ... commitment to this school? This isn't to say I'm the 10000%-always-on-the-grind ... the very normal 8:00 AM? I'm not a night owl I'm not a morning person I'm

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open ... school sophomores around, I'm writing a blog post. All right, so that ... 'd want something more than the above.) I'm blogging because in a true show

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch ... :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... there, and I couldn't resist taking a picture of their booth. They

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2 ... couldn't even find a wikipedia page for them): And my personal favorite ... Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half ... [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still ... something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  I took a picture today that pretty well reflects the mood around this place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party. Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  . I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk about this on a blogpost, but I know ... health is a far better state than usual. I'm communicating with my ... /NR (meaning if you get lower than a C, it doesn't show up on your transcript

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do ... exchange went exactly as awkwardly as it sounds. "Um, I don't actually have a ... and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn't

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  i'm a lot happier than last november, or two or three novembers ago ... 's fine to outgrow people. isn't that something you learned a long time ago? like, isn't that what you spent a huge chunk of time working past in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  poor heart T-T. As you can guess, I'm not a big fan of physics. Oh well ... . Regardless, I'm going to work on a little Megaman demo project. I highly recommend looking up Megaman if you don't know what it is, it's a really

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  do anything along those lines last year—I didn’t send out a single cold email or fill out a single application. Hell, I didn’t even have a resume ... opportunities like that in your email. honestly as a 6-7 (cs & bio) i don't

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  time i'm teaching for a multi-week program. i'm teaching a crypto class ... knowledge? i'm an sra for macgregor this summer, which is kind of like a gra except i'm not a grad student, and a gra is like, i think other schools

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much ... I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  . I'm a coffee addict - I don't deny it), and of course, we took way too ... fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to ... As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012