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• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... late, I’ve been asking Dylan R. ‘24 to put me in “email purgatory

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  with 8.022, I alternated between falling in love with the beauty of how ... definitely see how much my German has improved. Would I take it again if I ... world works in mysterious ways. Throughout this past year, I’ve blogged a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be ... ’s spadefoot, as big as both of my hands clasped together. I’ll keep that in — I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... , stimulating, and entirely fulfilling. In many ways, I am sure that I would not ... , exactly, did this all happen? To really answer the question, I would have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  , carbohydrates and how they exist in the body. So far, it's been pretty good. Today, in lecture, we learned about epinephrine. And of course, what would ... So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... would've said if I were in his position. I quickly thanked him and made a ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled LED Matrix on my dorm door, how I’d bring my cooking to my friends. It

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It’s not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it ... ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT ... one in class of 09/10 who is from india??i am sure there would be many but how should i contact them?? Hmm, that's a bit tricky. I would email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  choice because we didn’t know which groups would respond in time and weren ... the concert, which would’ve been painful and would have resulted in very ... different locations would hear different mixes. then i had the idea of setting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  in general. I would be remiss if I did not also welcome parents to our ... I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you ... student in the class standing up in front telling everyone how he or she

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... I was the director this is how I would want the scene to look, and you ... canonically they did meet in college?”] Yes. [laughing continues] But I would

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... 've got to say I would've rather served myself instead of being served. We

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  in quarantine, and I will tell her about Boston: how I wasn’t prepared ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  open-book like how it used to be. You know what would happen? I would ... the way that MIT changed my brain. And I would turn that test in blank ... fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  to interact with it in a big way, I wouldn’t have come to MIT. I would ... rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... . Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... mistake and make sure it doesn't happen again. (Ask me how I know.) Sorry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018