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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  vs Cambridge for IB Computer Scientists (it varies heavily based on ... reproduce the answer. When you're completely stumped in a lecture for a course ... for students. This method of teaching is useful for those who understand

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10 ... third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... camp/platform for teaching Android programming in Bangalore, India and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for ... 've been trying for years!' 'Well, you didn't have an MIT freshman in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... child holding on to his toys for too long. But even so I would not say I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road ... believe this was a Christmas Eve hike. We’re Jewish, so Christmas for me ... unpleasant for them but never long enough to wipe them out. When I run or bike

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one ... mistake the latter for the former if you’re not reading carefully, but they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... they are relatively uncommon. There's no set policy for all of MIT. On

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  hearing about it. regardless, everyone admires you for being super ... the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to ... time for you to drop some commitments and take some time to chill and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  was he hoping for something more? While Mike was a nice dude, I wasn ... website for WILG, and it occurred to me that this almost certainly wouldn ... and children, but that’s for a different post …) “Once you’re a mother

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... came across the following paragraph: Lately, though, I’ve searched for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... science, so I registered for it as my [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... … And I will, eventually. Hopefully. But for now, I’m going to tell you ... things for god knows how long—someone more well-versed in EC history could

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  and pay application fees, for many schools and not just one, in but just ... friends got accepted early. i felt happy for them, but it felt like token ... blogs. i checked the blogs pretty religiously for new posts every other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  -home labs (2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems and 16.851: Satellite ... the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron ... photo, in the light blue box, is my DemoSat for 16.851. The DemoSat is a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other ... before starting the psets for the other classes, I rushed learning all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  and we had't bought hamburger patties for our BBQ yet. After showing ... that I went zip lining for the first time. And for someone who is ... in silence for 15 minutes while being surrounded by others. But the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a formula for success. Ya know the big ol' "what makes someone successful?" Up ... direction) and I think reading Michelle Obama's Becoming helped: “For me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019