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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . One of those countries is China, and there have been a lot of ... realistic that situation is and chances are you’ll be greeted with a mixture ... coursework, and that’s how to deal with all the parts of your job that aren

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Cafe." And Vicki added, "Veggie Planet in Harvard Square is a tiny hole-in-the ... , the depth and breadth of ECs varies from school to school in the same ... ,' so is leaving that section blank going to harm us?" You hit the nail on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  believe in the same things you do and sometimes it takes a little push to ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to ... that gives teams of 20 a semester to design and build some product, in my ... that is Minecraft, wrote a 100+ page thesis, and graduated! January So

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fall, there is the schedule conflict that MIT has its fall semester ... -mandatory, and the ones that are may have a different policy. another12 inquires ... San Diego to Los Angeles, Flight 264 from LAX to Logan Airport, and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  outside of class time per week, and to that I say, desk time is pset time ... ) schedule, and I could have picked a major that was easier to finish, or ... really need to do it, and so you just do the very hard thing without

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  , which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... that's okay. We went to the CambridgeSide Galleria for dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . There's often a feeling among students that MIT is the hard road, and that ... good answer and a bad answer. A question like "What is the student ... we all work hard because we have to -- that the courseload here is so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  , and the enormous blank white projector screen is still down. There's a ... technician came down, fiddled, and determined that there was no power. A couple ... , picked up a piece of chalk, and turned to the chalkboard. Those of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive ... that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... want to remember from that November. Talk of all the miserable and joyful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... of my Harvard classes overlapped with a weekly lab, and trusted me to ... of the nopales. The hot glue works as a diffuser, and there was just

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  have to look forward to is a down market. According to this article, the ... first trading day after a country's team is eliminated from the World Cup ... conditions being the same. Is it really possible that big-time investors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  came to terms with the fact that I wasn't preordained to be a computer scientist, that I didn't have to struggle and strive for a job coding 9-to-5,  that there were other jobs and other majors, that I was the only person

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  ? Intersectionality is the idea that a person's identity is made up of the sum of ... . You don't choose to have a disability. However, there are certain states ... . And in the vast majority of cases, identity is non-negotiable. How did

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  today is the first day of classes, I guess it's a good thing that I ... recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag ... with all my stuff and were staying at the Hotel at MIT, which is oddly

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

  Class-tastic

  

  , depending on what's going on that week. A typical MIT courseload is 4 classes ... . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units every term since sophomore year, and taking 36 units this semester is a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  application to engineering systems." While 5.112 is about the same class as 5 ... . Covering more subjects and at a faster pace, 5.112 is comparable to 8 ... the ups and downs of the three papers on the table. Writing a letter to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  calculations were wrong, and there isn’t a transit today at all?” The second ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... all of that is actually true, except for the mysterious power outage and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  involved in the hacking community. All he wants to be is hardcore (there is, in fact, a song called "Hardk0re*"), but learns that there is more to ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011