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  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... undergrad/grad offering. For example, here’s how I would read a random course ... taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would ... only woman in the room and I would love there to be more gender diversity ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  the “p-set zone,” it helps us think in different ways than we would in ... last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  'd had the money, I would have taken a cab, but the three dollars in my ... student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  to figure out housing. I thought it would be easy, but seeing the huge ... though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... easier than it is (and honestly, I thought it would be easier than it was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab ... standing around in Best Buy, confusing every single customer and employee ... my mind. That was until this last Saturday while I was sitting in the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  fully that I would only seriously approach a small number of them. In ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  rush dies down just in time for the weekend, which I will be spending out ... out, so I turned around just in time to duck. I was one of the closest ... time. (I look clean, but my clothes were not.) Anyway, seeing as how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  . But I found out all about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night during my Chinese class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  ever, but I think the thing that's holding me back is just how much I ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking about when I brushed my teeth. In fact, senior year me was a little proud

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but ... I need to finish before going in to work. Every Friday, my research ... working on. This Friday, it’s my turn to present the progress I’ve made in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  would love to learn more about how we interact and utilize media in the ... in. I don't know how to play poker, but sure, I'll learn and play. I ... Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  Movies Watched in the Past Year Through Which I Have Remained 100 ... being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... brainwashed you into buying Coca-Cola. Need I say more? 3.Slumdog Millionaire

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... awesome! I imagined that I would try new experiments, test new compounds, and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  images out of text, I was pretty happy. So in the end, I would say this PCB ... minimum viable product (the bare bones criteria I would have to meet in ... 'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009