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• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  .[annotation note="This is a joke. Please don't do this."]Drop all your classes ... is cool with you dropping classes 11 weeks into a 14-week semester. It ... semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  bucket when it drops. That thing is brutal. Oh, it's also not too much fun if you're a lifeguard. Because then all you do is stand there and ... anyone who doesn't know how to swim jump into a pool ten feet deep???" That

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  responded with much glee, mostly because I wanted to use a cheesy pun (double ... I think that the three-dimensional you, quirks and all, is a lot more ... right now is how it applied to me when I was finishing up my application

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  . He mentioned how if your right hand is out after a punch, you make a ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... ’m still wondering how I got here, despite just detailing a page’s worth of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to ... to teach me how to use a sewing machine. As practice, I made this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  stuff!" *Ho is Element #67, has a boiling point of 2973 K, and according ... Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and -- Privet Drive is a large ... [thinking: this is getting a little weird]: The building is called Privet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  collaborative problem-solving happens is that one person figures out how to solve ... with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You work under a Principal Investigator (PI)—a professor who is the head of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... residents yesterday. I feel compelled to note here how AWESOME EC is. If I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... work. He showed me how to create the base—start with a hard-packed ball ... closer to our dorm. I couldn’t believe how much the morning had been full

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  frustration in a compassionate, fatherly way. It can be the feeling that one is ... skill is a blessing and you only have up to go, even though you feel so ... . Leadership is a moment of helping each other live — in this life that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  down and watch more Hermitcraft after this, so yeah. This is pretty much ... . My brain is filled with too much snot right now to remember what we ... before the semester starts is not a vibe. Wednesday wasn't the worst day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... , which is to say, not very. A whole slew of factors beyond my control

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... represent how small this room is. It's smaller than my AP Chem teacher. She ... of the dorm. The design is a pretty big downside to Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  ). This is another technical piece, a dialogue describing how Kerberos works ... acted, which is a shame, really, since MTA's production breathed an ... the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  majors is even more so. And therein lay a major problem: working out when ... .022 psets. (Still not sure how I pulled that one off.)   Yes, that is ... Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... since I got back, I keep noticing just how much B1 feels like home. I ... to Paolo, actually, for the recipe. in a quirk of fate, Paolo is the B1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves ... Adults by Elena Ferrante, which is a translated Italian novel. I'm not sure what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  looked like a whole different person back then. given how much i used to ... was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  about how much life there is left after college for learning, too. And ... responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019