Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... lines of the song work pretty well for a student's journey through MIT, or ... into his office to say hello at least once every week or two, frequently

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her ... bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... honors or anything foofy like that. True story.) I think MIT was worth it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  week or so. Last Monday, Dr. Byrne, who teaches 9.24, invited the class ... will hook you up for med school.) Not entirely related, but a picture of ... Adam is rude and/or Professor Durant is very gracious. We went out to his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  you come into contact with mounds of things you've never even seen or ... Sci). You can either keep your freshman year advisor, or select a new ... . Where there's a will, there's a way. More later about Course 11, the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more ... this was that no one in my group knew HTML, PHP, CSS, or any other form

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  you guys are all thinking. It's like ESP or something. OK I'll shut up ... .) Sometimes test questions have complicated twists, or mybe sometimes they ... will happn but hey, you gotta have goals in life, right? We get to have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week ... "Coordinating Committee" or CoComm. I think these meetings are pretty torturous ... I'm hosed, because I'm the Administrative Coordinator, or AC, which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  So dear readers, I have finally made it to MIT. I���m writing this from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... either doing FPOPS, or they're international students or athletes. Everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  seriously. CMS.S60 Rap Theory and Fundamentals (Lupe Fiasco) I will write a ... subconsciously or consciously trying to push?"and this class taught me how to ask ... thing. Anything you wanna make, you just tell Dave and he will help you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  out too -- it reaches his chin now. there's some sort of metaphor about ... i'll reach out to people i didn't get to spend much time with during

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  live across the country far from any parental supervision or family ... that you will never miss a home-cooked meal, because everyone in the ... MIT student, Maricela Delgadillo (right) This summer I will be doing

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... organic material or hardware, but by that time I had already finished high ... beings (alive or dead), so I opted for an interest in artificial

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... is the fourth floor of the east building (or parallel). three other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  how to help, and there was an upperclassman who was willing to teach us ... with some people I just met about how many bus stops the MBTA has, or how ... surprisingly quickly. Or about the ESP worksession I went to on Wednesday night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to ... year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think ... born. what a power it takes to say, and mean it, that your bones will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  , dreams and struggles in the hopes that someone will benefit from my sharing ... strong enough to do well in my CI-H class, which is 24.06, or Bioethics. The class looks extraordinarily interesting though, which will

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them ... student or postdoc while the UROP office or the lab funds their research

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on ... and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... . Sometimes, this means a tangent about relativity or quasicrystals and other

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  pick a favorite pet or fruit. It was just too difficult. Then came the ... fun midnight trips to iHop or spontaneous Random roofdeck shenanigans. I ... or organization, it's time to go to bed. I've started prioritizing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you that external transcripts drop any plus or minus modifiers, so an A ... whenever I had too much else to do that night, or if I simply wasn't feeling ... desperately hopes one of you readers will recognize him :p) warned me about his

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012