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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley

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

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  makes me angry because adults will be like yOu wOn'T cArE aBoUt tHis iN a ... . Dealing with those can change and shape you, and as I was going through ... to be long-lasting in order to be [annotation note="Do you see traces

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  grades very soon. get a summer internship You can see my internship ... to make them for last year, so I decided to show you mine for this year and give some more information so that when 2021 rolls around we can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  yo-yos. Mills can cut in 3 directions, (X, Y, Z), which makes them ... standard practice: you sit by the machine as it runs, always ready to step in ... to lab. You just do it. Or you put yourself in classes that will make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  she can't stand up straight. Cookie porn. Hope you weren't hungry ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on ... deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  11 years in the beautiful town of Olathe. Now before you say anything ... with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia ... the weather in lovely Los Angeles, California for around 5 years before

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  such, it's that they can take as much attention as you can give. i'm sure ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... in the world" to "that stupid school doesn't deserve you anyway ... what MIT had for me. I never thought I would get in, but I went down You

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  've fallen in love with these little echo moments and the way they assure you ... the lesson to take away from this is "when you're in the freshman ... less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  microcontroller pin, you can reroute the board by hand. [carousel image1 ... basically a more lightweight Arduino and can be programmed in a very similar ... , but you gotta fix it anyways The lights flash in the right order. The

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can turn on the tv and sing you songs and tell you the difference between

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  after she told me this. In many ways, I can see how similar my mom and I ... could be that friend you can introduce to anyone and you'll immediately ... . People will tell you to do things because they think they can and because

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  do. There's a lot of angst in the UA about how we can get more people ... year - both those of you in student government and those outside of it ... . You've been wonderful. Keep fighting the good fight, and in the words of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and whatnot. Nonetheless, what are the odds? Case in point number 2: I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  meeting(s?) + UROP, soon. other thoughts last night i went to all-you-can ... semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14.33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  the program starts so I can write out lecture notes in the fancy fashion ... . I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to ... to arrive. Boston is a lot nicer to be in when you don’t have a Pset

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  press conference. You can also watch the webcast of the Prize announcement. ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... reading “If we can encapsulate chemotherapy drugs in nanoparticles we can

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks ... major in Course 2 or 6 (translation: Mechanical Engineering or Electrical ... still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008