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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... 're not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your ... 'm sure other bloggers would be happy to describe other methods for other

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for ... baseball games. (This usually involves mocking the actual announcers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... . I found out that I actually enjoy coding enough to do it for hours at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... . after all, we’ve only barely known each other for two and a half months ... think, but you can’t force people to talk. so i wait for something to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  for the first few rehearsals)[/caption] Not the most exciting things in ... ; luckily, the bags did not stick around for long. It had been more than a ... . Admittedly, this may seem overkill for reading and annotating music, but hey, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and ... drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college ... apps. I am immensely proud of you all for everything you are handling

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  . this is disconcerting for numerous reasons. firstly, i feel like i don ... community before our dorm went offline for renovations. naturally, the ... ="aka exec member"]floor chair,[/annotation] i'm responsible for helping guide

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  service where you can check out bikes for a set period of time. there are stations all over the Boston area, so you can bike for essentially wherever ... you into the observation room, [annotation note="for the first shot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world ... write something, for myself, while staring out my window. I’ve already

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in ... beach, we stopped by a Stop & Shop for some burger buns, patties, and ... hunting ground for sharks. but they're not common in June, apparently. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make their own. But for those who are moving on to our next chapter, the spirit

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . JSF is an IAP program sponsored by the French department for students ... exclusively en français. (Forgive me, Professor Perreau, for writing this post ... ("urban furniture" for lack of a better term)--the streetposts, bus stops

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... 'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get ... unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  -14 days for the processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted ... for processing of all materials at this busy time. Interview reports ... had an interview, please note that the deadline for scheduling an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  I've only been here for a few weeks, but 'here' already feels like ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for ... going away for me. This is the place I've dreamed of for most of my life

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at ... talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for ... . we talked about funding for policy experimentation, research of police

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016