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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don ... relativistic time dilation and fall in love with physics. In 2003 I'm a high ... department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... MIT student. Truth is, I’m still a theater geek/runner/newspaper junkie ... you told me I’d be a varsity athlete in college. Now, I run the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  to my alma mater in only a matter of 45 minutes! It was this road that paved my comfortable life in college-never too far from home, so that if I ... rattled, ruffled, and scared in Boston. I arrived as a wide-eyed Country

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  Everyone is up late this weekend studying for finals. I'm immersing myself in math, but I think I now deserve a good night's rest. After all ... lower than official MIT housing. If you already live in a dorm, chances

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  . First, I had forgotten that this REX would be the first in-person REX in ... will move to a permanent assignment that better fits them. At Next and in ... with friends I hadn’t seen in a while, as they slowly returned to campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  it used to. Freshman fall, in a blog about realizing that I didn't know ... is always calmer than the ones that follow. For now at least, I ... school; that there is so much left to sneak up on me, to change the way I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  members gather in the kitchen for a fun study break. I will blog more about ... to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... ” MIT class is 12 units. This may mean 4 hours in class and/or recitation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  remembered that we can. All futures have a past; indeed, one reason we do ... thing you do when you study history is to realize that while the past ... future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was ... work alone. I walked two and a half miles in the dry Albuquerque heat ... Frisbee game. I was in a wheelchair for a day. Then on crutches. I learned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Cheese During in-house rush, I was told that the G unofficially stood for ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... I feel like I'm in a great mood all day. I'm so happy! I am excited

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to ... write code that aggregates geometric elements in a defined space as if

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  on campus! * On second thought, that second one is probably a bad idea ... ’t believe me if I told you’ serendipitous moments that make up a normal day on ... , travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that’s

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know? ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its ... mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... attack by swiping down. So a bull market is one in which the market is moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  engineering majors (do you know what an engineer is, really?), and a career fair ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The con of such a lifestyle at MIT is loneliness. I am the only humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  , but I know it could be a lot worse. Hope you all are doing well in ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We ... ideas, but anyway, I've been doing a lot of these things. I don't want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020