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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  entire Boston area, I sort of feel guilty having fun if I've got a whole bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool ... deadlines and actually feeling compelled to put forth the effort for paper

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  worked with some fun people, pretty cool stuff but quite a bit of work for ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... and new experiences. I know that I will create the conditions for my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three ... higher education administration. What I have liked the best, though, is ... out for yourself if a school is the right fit for you. To be honest, I

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... appealing. It's like...watching Breaking Bad for the first time (which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  for the course. 6.004 has a reputation for being one of the best classes ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... Cambridge, to meet some friends for breakfast...only to run into them walking

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  best place to study social science. 24.03 and 24.191 illustrate how ... summary: I am taking 6 classes for a total of 69 units of credit (courses ... SCIENCE LABORATORY Class Info and Benefits: 17.803, a required class for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... -and-black barcodes on the sample playing field. We do much of our work in 38 ... also taught me how to use the necessary tools), the spacers for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of ... world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I ... installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  , and while I'm not the best writer, I've found that this formula works really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... for you to be able to predict which one is “best.” You narrow things ... über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf  

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have ... class with a variable focus, would become a comic script workshop for this ... introduction). Our professor for the semester was Marjorie Liu, a New York Times

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a ... 's dishwasher completely for granted. Loading and unloading the dishwasher was a ... how great they are. So, I've compiled a list! For the prefrosh out there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  . There's no one best advising choice for every incoming freshman. Freshman ... advisors. Double the fun for everyone -- and double the number of people who ... traditional advisor is also available for one-on-one meetings any time during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... in the picture!?), reality hit for the first time. In just seven months ... grown up with for the past seven years will go different ways. In seven

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  rained for the majority of the week and everyone generally stayed indoors ... . While I rested most of the weekend, Sunday proved interesting. Join me for ... to the Z Center with nothing to show for it, I headed up Mass Ave to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best ... you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then ... you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021