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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  when describing my week to a friend I said, "The ratio of hours I spent doing math to hours I spent sleeping is far too high." Now that we ... thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  have led the way on some of the most important reforms to the MIT ... when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ’s important to know that there are families in State College with multiple ... a pedophile the chance to reform himself is more important than ... most importantly, by listening to its survivors and according their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to questions, so gold stars to them! I'll repost the questions and answers here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  important policy questions such as government response to global warming ... only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most ... , my host grandfather passed away, and two weeks ago, my cat was put to ... I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming with ideas ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... flight that had been delayed by two hours. So, I got out my laptop and ... observed that "your last name* maps to a rare earth element whose compounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of ... 't know what I thought would happen to me: that I'd freeze? That I'd get ... 'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a while and today I finally remembered to pack my camera. I’ll preface this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  and 24 (but not 13, 19, or 23) n 1 and 24 (but not 13), that important MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... weekend baby!!! Some people may sneer at how MIT folks seem married to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  irresistible, and normally I give in to temptation. After a day of important ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Polaroid donating the portrait to MIT along with a 9000-piece collection of Polaroid artifacts, of Polaroid's future plans to publicize its digital ... will “soon” release a fully-digital camera with the capability to print

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  MIT that are important, difficult, and take adjusting to, worrying about ... Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... : Too many to name... Here are a few: Seventh Samurai, Dr. Strangelove ... Married An Ax Murder, Love Jones, Dolomite. If you ever need to settle a bet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  . Anything else you want to say or share? Cookie hour in the Green Building ... To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... list. Without further ado, let me introduce you to... Abby B. '17

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  Yay, you guys asked me questions! And now, I will try to answer them ... your MIT education taking you? What opportunities have been available to you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005