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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... Twitter for a few minutes. It is senior year, and I have gotten the art of ... it is one of three classes I am signed up for which can satisfy my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and turkey await; I gave myself a strict no-homework policy for the next few ... blogging, but not necessarily in that order (I’m woefully behind schedule on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order ... signature. He won a Pulitzer for literature, not for autographing.) It almost

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  day; my TAs bring ice cream and order us Thai food for late-night study ... semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  intensive cultural experience for at least 8 hours a day, and I think I ... such that the first thing you learn in any language class is how to order stuff at a restaurant or ask for a hotel room. Because, honestly, why do I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Technology Officer (CTO) of Goldman Sachs and MIT Class of 1977. For those of ... in 2 years, in order to reduce the financial hardship on his family. As ... of a PhD student for two years, working with clathrate hydrates

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  lunch, go home, study for standardized tests, IM friends, get into college ... . Yes, these are the musings of someone who was out of school for a while ... I need in order to understand what's in store. I dare to challenge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... , "What?!?!" I "ordered" Artemis to not take the Math SAT again, and instead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  replace all k sounds with t sounds but that didn’t last long for obvious ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... to [annotation note="For context, Next House freshmen room assignment

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  home for sushi. Worst mistake of my life. We had 50+ orders of sushi ... at our respective colleges. For the 24th and 25th, I spent time at the ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break ... , and searching for ways to help, and not adding to the media spectacle

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  took lots and lots of pictures for your enjoyment. I woke up super early so I could stand around the track in the athletic center for several hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and ... of hurrying students, organizations selling/giving/brochuring for ... taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  that uses these answers in order to find a new answer. For example, if ... solve in order to get the metameta for that island, or something like that ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after checking if it’s the right bandsaw for the material you’re cutting, you turn ... never thought I would be coming to MIT to chop stuff. But during REX, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of ... . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted ... an actual conversation. As I order a latte and a salad, I decide to ... I could be here for hours and make almost no progress.   2

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019