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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  report where I derived equations about the natural oscillation, center of mass of the frustum, etc. I can't even begin to describe what joy it ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... finishes in January. It's the realest class of all the classes I'm in, which

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... ? That’s fantastic! I can relax, travel, take some classes, get an

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... . I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a ... hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud ... .704 I had a group project where we had to create a 7-9 minute video on ... Sulmona, a really tasty brunch spot in Central. After Sulmona, I headed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I ... mentioned by expatmom in the comments) After checking out the Fair, I headed ... , of course, they were experts in probability and statistics (I'm sure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  away, where  to come out is to stay in  your arms   i want my ... how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress ... out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  ; this is a case where I can take whichever classes I want and see what ... “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  scan on his computer. I guess MIT is an environment where you can learn ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of ... in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  where I fit in. It was a great feeling to eat breakfast before leaving on ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  said. I can say this from experience. It's a lot of fun; don't miss out. ... Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad Institute where they sequenced part of the human genome. - we walked

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group ... undergraduates are in a greek organization. And no matter where you go to school, I ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the ... CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  send in a newspaper article (front page :)) where I was one of the main ... . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my ... "what are my chances" questions. I simply can't answer them on a case

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009