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• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  first-year learning community, to study Greek philosophy. growing up, I ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about firsts. First bike, first time camping, first best friend… and my first

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  are only relevant to my first semester. I'm going through them now (3 ... first walked down the Infinite. I knew college changed you, but I didn ... majority of my friends, and how to essentially survive my first year at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second choice for where they want to live. The key to the whole party though, is ... (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  because I particularly wanted to read Infinite Jest, or to break into post ... Infinite Corridor during a typical day to get from Lobby 7, to Building 26 ... first got to MIT, I looked up on the dome and told myself, I'm going to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Date: April 12, 2005 7:21:07 AM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: your MIT dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa ... years ago, there was a really bad idea. It was built by First East (that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago: I tried/ditched required

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  infinitely graceful reply (I even included a link to Random Hall's laundry ... the Infinite Corridor to assist the Laboratory for Chocolate Science in ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... this class teaches you specifically how to write safe, well-verified, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  of Fine Arts - one mandatory to write the first paper, the second as a ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  “Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  happen in The Tech in the few days before our most recent issue went to print. First I’m going to frame the situation. Let’s start here: Last ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... on a daily basis. If I actually did want to publish a paper on the ... asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  to make a rectangle. So one of the key things I forgot to mention ... separate story. To be concise, my first experience sucked hard but was also ... determined to be better than the mess I was the first time around. Forever

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  justice... ...um wrong story. Actually, I made my first visit to NYC one ... to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  format, but are usually necessary. My first approach is to comb through ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  communication skills are key to long-term career success. 'Being the best ... Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby ... first you have to make time to pause and interrogate yourself and when you ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... people if that wasn’t clear yet. The first step was figuring out how to ... Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018