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• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  campus one single time, I consistently have no idea what building I’m in ... complete - gym registration usually opens at 8 AM, and when I logged in at 8 ... ’m a likely Course 6-3 (that’s computer science in MITese), but I don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the ... -- it's not in the MIT student makeup to be catty or cutthroat. Plus, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  think i talk about how much i love my UROP in like, every blog post i make ... of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard ... ="when i'm feeling motivated, i go in to lab at around noon, leave at 4

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  huge championship boxing match, and I was in the control room where they ... studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical ... DID YOU KNOW? Stonehenge is not in Scotland. Okay, another cop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing ... entrants: I was, at times, in the chat group with Omar (in the picture of ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative, but also exhausting - I actually fell asleep while writing this last ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the ... Mia. Oh well, how can I resist? ... Right now, I am sitting and blogging live from Boston's amazing new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were ... one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  , since I'm finally moving into my fraternity's house in Boston. Of course, I've had a great time in Simmons this past year (and there are more ... detritus I've accumulated in my room over the past year into three basic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy ... the fact that I hadn't gotten in and only checked my account to confirm ... about you guys a lot" is a gross understatement. I'm sure in the coming

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... ended. the classroom was in 34-101, and my next thing was in 34-501, so i ... some lunch, and sneak in some stardew valley before my next class. have i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  . This is actually a good pic, though I bet my mom would disagree (she was ... necklace that I'm wearing in the UAP/VP '06 debate. A more wishful thinking version of me. "Me in fearless crusader mode." I hope that this has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I ... like, two-thirds of the way up the block, and I was pretty dumb in high ... . Anyway, she didn't really say anything, when I walked in, but merely thrust

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with ... like "I am cat" and don't care about anything in the world. Anyway, we ... The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  ultimately how everything ended. Unfortunately, I'm still so overloaded by ... anagrammed to spell Log Rot." "Let's call it in!" "OK!" Now, granted, I made ... . What was it called? "The Gym." Vice-Coach Horace Ferret would be in the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... would’ve never guessed I’d enjoy it, but I did immensely because of the ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013