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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in ... So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I ... 't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... monotonous. The setting? Indeed. But in the same way that a good book can carry

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn ... mathematician, I wasn't sure exactly how I would relate. I had seen the theater ... in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  - Graded Undergraduate Research in Course 9 Total: 72 units I'm way more ... semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great ... tour an MRI lab and take a look at the psychology in movies like "I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I ... in Sweden, I realized what I had to do.  I called the artist, Jane

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... thing, though, it’s more just an observation. One way to describe how I ... your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... . I also haven't yet figured out how to finish all my psets on time; my ... ground? How do I get everything done reasonably on time without sacrificing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I've pasted some excerpts from the UEA email in italics.) The complimentary ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... more interested in sophomores or juniors. I do not have a resume. The ... What I acquired from the MIT Career fair last Thursday: 29 pens

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  , life on the road can be hectic), I hopped back in the car around the ... (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... restaurant in Garden Grove, had some delicious tofu. I tried the Kimchi Beef

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

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your ... prepare to send decisions out in ~12 hours. I may close comments later today

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... enough to teach an old dog a new trick, I'm sure I can teach you my ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  the personal pronoun “I” in proofs. After hours of absorbing the style ... influenced the class topics in profound ways. I enjoy my assignments, though ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... function can be in the frequency or time domains depending on what you need to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... apply to MIT if…?” I’m not an expert in this matter, nor can I pretend to ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in ... (which was great), and I watched the entire second season of Kakegurui in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... - Adventure Outfitters. “Can you start tomorrow?” “Yes! Yes, I can!” I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011