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• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  -than-acquaintances-not-quite-friends-yet, and a lot of [annotation note="idk how to characterize levels of ... . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a ... to really tell how reciprocal it is. IRL, you can easily see the people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the ... switch lanes or else you miss your exit. In contrast, 18.02 is a rural ... somewhat excited for this class. This is a seminar class with discussions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  will say a couple things I realized about my job and ETS. 1) This is ... their lives… 2) This is really hard… a question is not just a question ... questions – is put together… D: 3) Essentially, ETS may seem like a big

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the ... with maple bacon); tomato basil, which is absolutely a donut because it has a hole in it; and Belgian dark chocolate, which is kind of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... , "That's so much cheaper/better for me since I'm a huge procrastinator ... work out for you, or it might not. But it IS much easier to take the AP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in ... 's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add ... rest assured, there is a niche for everyone. MIT takes all types

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  taking 60 units and a UROP, which is not terribly more sane than previous ... assignment is a pre-lab, due the day of one's lab section, and another is a ... shift other work around 2.671 in different ways each week. There is a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  . I wouldn’t shut up about how much I loved late night psetting with friends, how much I respected my professors for taking time from their genius to teach me, how much I enjoyed hanging with my new fraternity

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  have already sent in a form detailing how much of that you plan to earn ... how pronounced the foam is or how long it sticks around, but that can ... anything to do with what the water is actually surrounded by. A single bubble

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... they feel like they should blog. This is just a theory though. Anywho, I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  species. Art is a verb. Art is about ideas as much as aesthetics--as much ... 't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND ... literally out the door. One of the best things about Anna's is that they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  , to be clear, is a vanity metric and not indicative of much, but it ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... received a prestigious graduate fellowship, he said he felt it, too. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a ... very much builds on itself, and if you miss a vital piece of foundation ... . Literature is art; literacy is a basic skill. And even the stuff that isn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  , gonna learn so much stuff 🎶 I really think this is going to be a great ... Registration Day, which is always a Monday. Although classes don't start until ... Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... . I’m considering staying for a master’s degree. To decide is to walk ... . Here is how I am different now: I forgive more easily. I’ve learned that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be ... . Enough said. There is a huge community of local mappers who chart out ... someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... sentence structure--notice how pretty much every single sentence begins with ... [sic] red. My job will be a teacher. I will go to meetings to learn how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  are not so much. So the answer is yes, GPA matters, but it matters a lot ... . "Sometimes a whale is just a whale," she said. Yup, science majors and ... of discrimination I have ever received as a woman in science is that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005