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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  criticism on how cringy freshman year Nisha [annotation note="or still am idk ... directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here ... - I’m talking wild eyed, [annotation note="i will say, i do like people

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  allusions to. We got the essay prompt before Thanksgiving: who, or what ... ain't the case. The man got sick after or before drinking with his buddy ... 's zoom, or seminar classes, or non-STEM classes at MIT, but it feels like I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  work on research for our project or plan and design a couple of things we ... employees in the lab, or just simply observe as they played fun games like Dungeons and Dragons or Codenames. It was absolutely surreal to me that I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  … I swear you’ll enjoy them! Grand Prizewinners 1st Place: Godel Escher ... (in Origami) Vol. 1 — (Does Brian look familiar? That’s because I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  November through late February (for this problem we'll say November 1 through ... Janurary. Amy takes 3 days of vacation in November, 1 in December, 2 in January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  , because it is okay, and things will be okay, but it's hard to know things will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where ... anticipated any of this -- any of the things I've accomplished or seen or done

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be ... international dorm with very few other people coming from the U.S, etc. These will ... . However, over the last, say two years or so, I have seen a dramatic decrease

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don ... 4.0 scale or whatever is utterly irrelevant. I'm opposed to class rank ... , demonstrated that I was willing to take risks. I see posts on CC and comments on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  parents will NEVER know!" I get the feeling that a lot of people were under ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  't have hazardous conditions or oppressive heat. The "high pay" "good ... second job in the Lewis Music Library. This is my desk: [] People will ... Michigan. But without Moria, we will carry on and see Hamlet in the Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  because every now and then our conversation made him smile or frown, and ... annotated Gorgias will travel with me to Marburg, Germany, for an intensive ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... with a friend, or choosing to subject myself to more Fourier transforms

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  willing to share their inner life probably shouldn't be in this class ... all is that nobody is actually an NPC. When I was three or four years ... dull, who doesn't aspire to do anything particularly ambitious or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  the 3 technicals, a HASS or two, UROP, extra-curriculars, etc. circuit ... death. We each keep, more or less hidden within us, a nostalgia for ... long day or the easiest to get through because I am asleep, which may or

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Hrm, ok. Let's pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that ... 't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should ... young folk and eager applicants may not want to do, but probably will want

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  will also be no rehearsal on Wednesday, February 19. There will be a… special surprise… for us that day. I will say nothing more.” I was very ... classical music on the radio or Spotify, you’ve almost certainly heard his

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  ’s plenty I could say! And I will say those things eventually, but this past ... energy? The nice thing is that I don’t really care if it’s good or not. I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  long known as the Green Building auditorium, or occasionally 54-100 (one of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  those times, but hopefully the school year will sharpen our brains...or ... I do a MISTI summer (unpaid) internship or apply to jobs that will ... . I think I went five or six times this summer, with different groups of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  promise it will become easier later (looking at you, 2.671). At times, it ... ’re near Rochester (unlikely, but had to throw that out there), or want to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018