Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... frowned upon to willingly do work outside of work? i get why it's bad if you ... sees me replying to a message after hours, she tells me to get off slack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA ... lounge how much free time they have in the average weekday. Mark '07 ... to major in course 4 and course 5, respectively.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... ; on the most recent list, we're third, supplying $8,628,074 in aid to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that ... began packing to move into my new apartment, for which we've already paid ... stuck in your head for days on end, returned to conducted the BSO (he was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee ... ~Ana Remember that awesome movie, Back to the Future? Well in the ... in the future. ~Kirsten Also on the bezel is the green building, how

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... understanding. That click to go off in my head. Needless to say, it didn't. 8 ... floundered with the Expo marker in some desperate attempt to write something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new adventures in far-flung cities. Most who are still around are the ones who ... sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , whatshouldtimcallme.tumblr.com, get ready to go out at night, or just stay in to karaoke ... worried about getting put in a quad, there are only 10 on campus, all located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  to the new Autodesk BUILD incubator in Boston that just opened this ... and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case ... reason to share otherwise, and little captions of what was happening in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• 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 ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to ... intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... class relevant to students' daily lives, and (b) how MIT policy affects ... satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... opportunity to revisit on our 20th anniversary. So, what’s the legacy? How has

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to ... week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006