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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended ... extreme poverty a thing of the past? Why do some countries grow fast and ... ? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  dreams because all I wanted is to have any job, and not live in the projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  everyone at MIT is weird. But in a different way. I never thought that the ... . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... !xobile Time: 12:48 PM Subject: long story I had a dream that I went out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... Admissions Reception Center). This means that the room is in building 10, on ... shallow jerk. I heard a visitor say once that the people at MIT looked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... shadows of a face. In stats I concentrated on the hatching of clouds instead ... at our lunch table. Within a few days of returning home, I fell in love

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  avoid repeating past mistakes. From doing a UROP, I learned how important ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... transactional to put it that way, but it's true. I needed a degree, an education

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... freshmen in my suite about how the story behind my accident is really lame ... gang!" Anyway, one part is true- I did save a life. At least, I hope I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  trust in my community over the last couple of weeks, and this is a place I ... grew up in a home that loved football—Penn State Football. I had a PSU ... . How do you call the police and tell them about a crime that you didn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... , but I assure you that somebody is kicking the famous "CPW Weather ... three prefrosh in suite lounges (um, but not that one, which is covered

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  then, I've been in a bit of a rut. I've been freaking out a lot ... 've looked for more media based internships, since that's a field I have some ... contestant in the pageant! I joined it on sort of a whim because I wanted just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while ... the bug in my 6.7930 (ML for Healthcare) PSET a bit faster. I wished I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  in the future.  I am now considering doing a concentration in either ... out three days later.  Everyone told me that I would be fine in a couple ... myself for doing the best I could. I also learned that HASS (Humanities

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... ; I'm sure many MIT students could write a better app. Perhaps this is ... in late November. I hypothesize this is because people got too busy

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... . Now that I knew what I had to do, the next step was finding a professor ... featured on the news, but I didn’t really understand that there was a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... -Conner students! What that means is that licensed massage therapists come in and ... ... uh, I could have studied a little more for that dirty little puppy, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... dorm where each resident has a score that determines their priority in ... predicting which values might have a low selection frequency. I thought that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  discounting and dreading the place I'd lived in and known since I was a small ... feel like a visitor, now that I no longer subconsciously know that I live ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  expectation that you should spend your winter doing a mini-internship, many ... to internships in that you meet people in a field you might be ... a client. Good ideas always came in the form of a narrative that was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014