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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  bryanblogs [at] mit [dot] edu. (Take that spambot!) Nam wrote: "Hi, I'm ... , I will admit that I'm not completely familiar with how international ... ' classes you attend, I'm interested in what you do between classes, any

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  make sure I'm awake enough to hear the second one—goes off. I turn it off ... Gates Tower. Just three minutes late—not too bad, all things considered! I'm meeting with the two graduate students and the other SuperUROP I'm working

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  there are so many cool ones and I'm having difficulty choosing what to do ... 6 [annotation note="Communication Intensive class in my major."]CI-M ... .UAT[/annotation] to fulfill my CI-M requirement, and I am taking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  take around 48 units each semester, or 4 full classes. I'm currently ... , so here we are. Well, what are the classes? I'm interested in computer ... class is fine—I'm mostly taking it because it meets a lot of major

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  : I'm sort of in the middle of a bunch of traveling, so my answer won ... opportunities for doing research. I'm actually not 100% sure why I went to MIT ... list of all the extracurricular activities that I'm involved with. Do I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  . Although the “I’m Just Ken” memes and bright pink were shoved down everyone ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I’m ... , despite all its glory, is also just another place I live now. I’m still

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  green, so green it shocked me.  I’m happier than I was, I reasoned ... classes. I’m learning about Celtic folklore and picking up a lot of writing ... of my life. I’m not trying as hard on psets this semester, but I seem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  some higher-dimensional-being that I'm merely a slice of. A fragment of ... numerous other areas of study, I'm interested in the worm's relationship with ... think about this quite a lot (though I'm certain you can find a part of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  really long blog posts. i did a lot of other things too, sure. i'm two ... vincent h. '23. it went something like this. vincent: yeah i'm worried i'm ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... . Because I’ll be asleep. Because I’m living somewhere between Boston time and ... . I’m in a small town in Russia. Why I’m here is a complicated question

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I’m drowning in it. I’m not in meltdown mode yet. I still feel "fine ... 's only 3 weeks into the semester, and I’m already finding it easy to lose track of all of the things that I’m doing. Thursday passes, and because

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... , which I’m very grateful for. One of them actually goes to MIT, and we did ... bread or pancakes, so I’ll have that. But I’m honestly extremely content

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  context, I'm currently doing 16:8 intermittent fasting, where I have an eight hour eating window throughout the day (typically 1pm to 9pm). I'm ... really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  to go up after the talk to say hi, and I'm sure a small part of myself ... just a weird nostalgia trip for me. I'm even surprised I'm managing to ... provided a lot of guidance. I'm just gonna list these nuggets of wisdom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  scale: the lines are 30m, or 100ft. 6.02 am: i wake up abruptly from a dream in which i miss[annotation note="i'm leaving in eight days, next ... .9000. it's our last meeting and i'm really sad -- i've had so much fun in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  with them. I start by writing down exactly what it is that I'm afraid of ... am worried will transpire. Not "I'm scared of my quantum exam tomorrow!" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  I'm heading over to medical after I finish this post. And maybe after ... ... So now it's 3:30 and I'm trying to get down and finish this annoying ... soon, from now on I'm spending an extra 6+ hours a week on Terrascope =P

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Putz): "I'm working in the Media Lab's Tangible Media Group on a new ... 2, of Simmons): "I'm off to be a girl scout camp counselor in Plymouth, MA - I've always wanted to go to summer camp. I'm excited to work with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  :00 AM was exciting....okok I know I'm lame, sorry), so I never got around ... 's Jess with her tagline: "I'M HOSED." and I'm like wow, I guess everyone ... introduced to the concept of "class average" and "standard deviation." Since I'm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008