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• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C ... given my all in attempt to get it published, but I burnt out before I ... validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... on how good the food is.  “Oh yeah, that’s Phillip Isola!” Ali said to ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... pharmacy to get cough drops. In addition, a Kazakh teacher at Shoqan had ... school up to AP Calculus, about how I felt. “I explain something to them

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... new perspective on what it means to put something down on the page. It ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in ... different majors to help you think about classes and research opportunities in ... recruit you to (and inform you about) their majors. Later, in the Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic ... don't think you get how cool this is... A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!! Of ... -of-the-envelope calculations to determine to what temperature the chocolate had to be heated in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  learned how to collect oral histories (read: interviews), access the MIT ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station, I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  pots, ahem). MacGregor is also in talks to get a dining hall put in ... As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... excellent when you just don't want to go outside in the winter, but you also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that ... . =) Played in an Assasssins' Guild game, where I ended up trying to conquer the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the ... began promoting Adam to me in the most unsubtle way possible, and being a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  -intensive requirement for my math major, to get more exposure to proofs and real math in a ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  involved in applicants and prefrosh that it's hard not to get excited ... 's completely impossible. Some people we just didn't get to in time (and it was ... the problem was and then verbalize how to treat it appropriately. Is it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... , you all came to mean more than i can say. i graduated in summer 2013

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few ... . it's a very different way to think of product design or just design in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in ... attention of the frazzled shopkeeper to put in their order. And it turns out ... are going to end up getting a slice of that beautiful pie and taste

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014