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• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for ... documentation to provide a point from which people could continue the work. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... to learning incorrectly to just being a mess overall. I've struggled to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  school obsession, I felt contractually obligated to write about a song from ... repetitive), the only other track I regularly chose to skip was “Take a Break ... easily–instead, he uses the song “Take a Break” to drive home that, far

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... course is supposed to be a lot of time and effort, but I think it's worth ... worry about finding a group for projects. Again, this class is supposed to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very ... 't think of anithing But Nasa! So I Dicided to mak a book about Dinosaurs! So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... simply did not have the processing power to react to two arrows at a time ... arrows much faster, and a few attempts later i was able to hit most of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... , on to the point. By now, I suspect that a lot of my readers are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... to a global pandemic, our dorm is being renovated for two years, and we ... discussed quite a bit. It was first posed to me on a call with someone on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House ... statistical methods to diagnose a problem, we will first want to control for ... , Senior House is one of the most inexpensive dorms to live in and has a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... ) extremely popular and b) associated with a higher probability to earn above ... -3 is pure CS. (I'm being a little disingenuous to keep the spectrum

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  Don Sadoway rated a 6.3 for 3.091 : Intro to Solid-State Chemistry. A ... the residences also have a student committee to discuss dining issues ... acclimatize? Is it normal to require hours upon hours of work to understand a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  about the humanities and half as a coping mechanism to handle the eight ... . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to ... sentences? A: I don’t know. I’ll probably just take great care to avoid that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  A Love Letter to Tatte August 30th, 2025 Dearest Tatte, It has been ... [/annotation] between psets for a much needed comfort meal. Here's to a new year! xoxo ... know that you could only be awaiting (all of) my money to support your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025