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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  , I'd say take something that's both a HASS-D and a CI-H first term, and ... your experience like with being on crew for a year? Did you like being on ... about the problem with just looking at stats. It's a wonderful post, but I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  responsibilities were multi-faceted, but I would basically meet with a professor and ... . Winter Break passed and I had a chance to look over Beth’s paper. I ... throughout IAP and conducting interviews with both Prof. Imperiali and Beth at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  . and am furiously looking for an exit to turn around. As I approach the ... Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  else. I look to the future with a hopeful heart and I know that there is ... old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... summer? to beat the "hard" level on Guitar Hero 3 Nice. Good luck with ... ! Congrats on recently declaring your major, and on no longer being a freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  casually stood in an elevator and spoke with a co-founder of AirBNB who was ... Boston area and on campus which was a topic I felt tied perfectly with my ... ="104480" image9="104440" /] And mixed in with all these activities were a lot of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  nothing for a while. But they figured it out anyway. I have lived and ... run around and play. I came back with a fiery analytical vigor. I ... knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions, reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any of it (recognizing it as idealistic, possibly self-centered and a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  this involves people serenading each other with a mariachi hat and jacket ... LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... outreach), LUChA (focuses on culture and academics), Casino Rueda

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  hurt and I was tired and my mind was drifting a little. There are a lot of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... write about while cheering for tonight's MIT mens' basketball game, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  came up and slipped a card into my hand. Bewildered, I looked around for ... looked a little affronted, and suggested that I ask the stewardess. I ... me down on a couch for twenty minutes; she talked with me about careers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  enough. A friend and I finished watching all 44 episodes of 3-gatsu no Lion ... , and then turned around. And for a couple minutes, we just walked in ... looked quickly at a map, and committed not to open it unless I got lost

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  in about 3 and a half hours. The only problem was, we started at about ... help build lofts for me and Chris. I happen to have a ridiculously ... I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  and wood scraps for...reasons making a, well, some may call it, an ... choreographed and performed a fantastic dance with a comedic twist! Just like ...  again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  officer for NROTC. IAP '08 came and went without a post, and that was ... . This is a great class, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone with an ... E class I need for my degree, and I'm doing a lot better this term. I'm too

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  all over the world with backgrounds both similar and completely ... I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... , both to those who were admitted and those who were not. From reading

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  dorms, so look for those within the coming days and weeks. Alyssa asked ... the main i3 page? You could also try going back a level and trying to ... four classes per term for eight terms and it will almost certainly come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a ... for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard ... . (Okay, not really, but I feel like a childhood with his name had to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  Stuff at Simmons (along with some torso-sized bowling pins and a handful ... school’s dorms and interact with as wide a variety of your new classmates ... my day)—but not from the freshman side and not from the other side. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  could rise in power for a showdown with the devil. Along the way, they ... coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only sign a simple contract with some unreadable fine print. After nearly all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007