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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... true. Other blog posts recanting the more mundane remind me that in many

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... my younger brother who lived in fraternities and independent living groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't always obvious. Other important factors in your college decisions process ... , match wasn't foremost in my mind. Or in my mind at all. In fact, it wasn ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... as well, but for now I am enjoying myself in the moment, even with the ... have reached the point in my major where I am taking classes that are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... : About me: I am a senior who is majoring in 21E: Humanities and Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have ... 've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in ... memorization randomly in between) Me : MIT :: Linguini : cookingFor all you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... taking strolls around the park in my walker, my summer consisted of: Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... was actually seeing people in person that I've been seeing online ... a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you ... 've created. However, rather than sending in the 8-page report, write a new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that was not awkward, and everything worked out fine in the end. Every once

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  whatever reason, asking questions in the comments section of a blog post ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly ... your situation in Quantum II class. I hope that things even out for you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal ... hacking stuff in highschool, notably capture the flag competitions where you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... time in 8.01 was something the professor taught us in the first few weeks ... large bird with a 11 foot wingspan predominantly found in the southern

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024