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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... requirements this semester, breaking the record for the most number of math

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to ... whether you’re a major/minor. But the specifics and exactly when you’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours right before were full -- packing, friends, watching the sunrise, goodbyes ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  , whether physical or virtual. Capturing the absolute batshit random stuff ... , is one of the things that keeps everybody laughing through the pain that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... that every applicant receives the individual attention they deserve; we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E&M. 8.021 was the best decision I've made this semester! I enjoy 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to lots of East African classics in line with my project theme which was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... , on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit here in the airport on Tuesday morning, it's actually dead week that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  closet at home, and found some …. Things.  The sorting process started out normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... really long critique session (which is basically when everyone in the class ... ’s assignments were the first ones where we had to include sound, which gives

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for this trip to a) explain why I might be uncharacteristically quiet on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... now she's at the center for civic media, working on projects that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other ... well-documented code. We wrapped up the first class with the "Software ... , or harm the environment. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... . The Bee was between the first and second semester. I might have trouble

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  Hi all, During the holidays, many admissions officers are out on ... the January 1 deadline, here are few FAQs that might help.   For RA students What is the application deadline? The deadline is

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  the goddess Limos had inflicted a terrible curse upon you. Well, maybe ... ) promising. You push open the door and smile as you hear the familiar jingle of a little golden bell. And then you see the dessert case; instead of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... . Quito itself is at just under 10,000 ft (3 km) above sea level, and the TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014